Ceo That Fascinated Me the Most

The CEO that fascinated me the most is Steven Paul Jobs alias Steve Jobs. He’s s an American business magnate, an inventor and the co-founder of Apple Inc. in 1976. He’s also co-Founder & CEO of Pixar in 1986. He has been given the title of "Person of the Year 2010" by Financial Time following the success of the widely acclaimed iPad. He has joined the influential list of the previous Financial Time people of the year winners which include US president Barack Obama, steel baron Lakshmi Mittal and the president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet. Steve Jobs and his company went through a lot of dilemma before they could rejoice their success today. Furthermore, the company’s achievements are the following:  

   
    In 1976, Steve Jobs introduced Apple I computer for $666; first single-board computer with onboard Read Only Memory (ROM) that told the machine how to load programs from an external source and had a video interface.
    In 1977, he introduced Apple II; first mass-marketed personal computer; had a plastic case and included color graphics; Jobs encouraged programmers to create applications for the Apple II; this resulted in 16,000 programs from games to farm budgets; former Intel marketing manager Mike Markkula became Apple chairman and secured venture capital of $600,000.
    In 1979, Steve Jobs developed a computer named Lisa, which would redefine personal computing; he began working on the Macintosh personal computer.
    In 1980, Apple Inc. had a market value of $1.2 billion
    In 1983, Apple presented Lisa to the public, a powerful, more intuitive computer controlled by hand-held mouse; designed for computer illiterate. A smaller, less expensive version called Macintosh was also introduced.
    In 1985, Jobs essentially resigned from Apple with $150 million & formed NeXT Software to develop computer hardware and software. Microsoft sold its first Windows 1.0 operating system
    In 1996, Jobs contacted Apple. Apple... [continues]

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