Stephen Jobs- Mary Grace UNFINISHED!

On February 24, 1955 a boy was born. His name was Stephen Jobs. Stephen was adopted, his birth parents were Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah. His adopted paretns were Clara and Paul Jobs. Stephen went to school, but hated it. He hated it because he was so goo at computers. He got into electronices from his father, who was a machinist. When Stephen enrolled in high school he spent his free time at Hewlett-Packard. There he was befriended into a computer club with Steve Wozniak. After he finished high school he went to Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He droped out of college to spend the next 18 months dropping in to creative classes. In 1974, Stephen took a position as a video game designer. Several months later he left designing to find spiritual enlightenment in India, traveling Continent and experimenting the psychedelic drugs. In 1976, when Jobs was 21 he and Wozniak started the Apple Computers. The duo started in the Jobs family garage, and founded their entrepreneurial venture after Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak sold his beloved scientific calculator. They are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry by democrating the technology and making the machines smaller and cheaper! The two conceived a series of user-friendly personal computers that they initially marketed for $666.66 each. They first model, the Apple I, earned them 4774,000. Three years after the release of their second model, the Apple II, sales increased 700 percent. In 1980, Apple Computer became a publically traded company with a market value of $1.2 billion on the first day of trading! However, the next several products from the Apple suffered significant design flaws resulting in recalls and consumer disappointment. IBM suddenly surpassed Apple sales, and Apple had to complete with an IBM/PC dominated business world. IN 1984 Apple release the Macinotosh marketing the computer as a piece of counter culture lifestyle:romantic, youthful, creative. Despite positive sales and performance superior to IBM's PC, the Macintosh was still not IBM compatible. In 1985, Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO to begin a new hardship and software xompany called NeXT, Inc. The following year Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios. Believing in Pixar's potential, Jobs initially invested $50 million of his own money into the company. Pixar's films produced wildly popular animation films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles. His films have netted $4 billion. The stdio merged, came together, with Walt Disney in 2006 making Steve Jobs Disney's largest shareholder. Despite Pixar's success NeXT, Inc floundered in attempts to sell in specialized operating system to mainstream America. Apple eventually bought the company in 1997 for $429 million. That same year, Jobs returned to his post as Apples CEO. Much like Steve Jobs instigated Apple's success in the 1970's, he created with revitalizing the company in the1990s. With a new management team, altered stock options, and a self- imposed annual salary of $1 a year, Jobs put Apple back on track. His ingenious products such as the iMac, effective branding campaigns, and stylish designs was a attention grabber of consumers once again. In 2003, Jobs discovered he had a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare but operable form of pancreatic cancer. Instead of imminently opening with surgery he chose to after his pescovegetarian dirt while weighing Eastern treatment options. For nine whole months Jobs postponed surgery, making Apple's board of directors nervous. Executives feared that shareholders would pull their stocks if word got out that their CEO was ill, but in the end, Job's confidentiality took precedence over shareholders would pull their stocks if word got out about Jobs. In 2004, he had a successful surgery to remove the pancreatic tumor. In recent years, Apple has introduced such revoluntary products as the Macbook, iPod, and iPhone, all of which have dictated the evolution of modern technology. Almost immediately after Apple releases a new product, competitors to scramble to produce comparable technology. In 2007, Apple's quartly reports were the company's most impressive statics to date. Stocks were worth a record-breaking $199.99 a share, and the computers boasted a slaggering $1.58 billion dollor profit, and $18 billion dollar surplus in the bank, and zero debt. In 2008, iTunes became the second biggest music retailer in America&mdsah, second only to Wal-Mart. Half of Apple's current revenue comes from iTunes and iPod sales, with 200 million iPods sold and six billion downlaoded. Because of these reasons, Apple has been rated No. 1 in America's Most Admired Companies, and No. 1 amongst Fortune 500 copanies for returns to ahareholders. Early in 2009, reports circulated about Jobs' weight loss , some predicting his health issues had returened, which included a liver transplant. Jos had respnded to these concerns by stating he is dealing with a hormone imbalance. After nearly a year out of the psotlight Steve Jobs delievered a keynote address at an invite-only Apple event. on September 9, 2009. In re4spect to his personal life, Steve Jobs remains a private man who rarely discloses information about his family. What is known is Jobs fathred a daughter with girlfriend Chrisann Brennan when he was 23. Jobs denied paternity his daughter Lisa in court documents, claiming he was sterile. JObs did not initiate a relationship with his daughter until she was seven but, when she was a teenager, she came to live withher father. In the early 1990s, Jobs met Lauren Powell at Stanford buisness school, where Powell was an MBA student, They married on March 18, 1991, and currently live in Palo Alto, California, with thre children.