Biography of Steve Jobs

 Who is Steve Jobs?

Steven Paul Jobs was an American inventor, designer and entrepreneur who was
the co-founder, chief executive and chairman of Apple Computer. Apple's revolutionary
products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the
evolution of modern technology. 
Born in 1955 to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up
for adoption, Jobs was smart but directionless, dropping out of college and experimenting
with different pursuits before co-founding Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976. Jobs left
the company in 1985, launching Pixar Animation Studios, then returned to Apple more
than a decade later. Jobs died in 2011 following a long battle with pancreatic cancer. 

 What are his contribution to information technology?

He was awarded close to 450 patents ranging from computers, touch based
interfaces, keyboards, portables to staircases, clasps and sleeves. Along the way he
revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet
computing and digital publishing.
(1) Co-founded a company named apple along with Steve Wozniac. (2) Delivered
the first commercially successful personal computer. (3) Introduced GUI, built
in screen and mouse into a personal computer. (4) Behind the successful
animation studio Pixar. (5) Re-established apple as a profitable company.
(6) Laid foundations of apple new age products with MAC OS X. (7)Changed
the way people listened to music through Ipod. (8) Revolutionized smart
phone with Iphone. (9) Improvised Iphone through Features like App store
 What is his leadership style?
Steve Jobs offers a more autocratic leadership style. An autocratic leadership has
one person in charge, the authoritarian, who collects little to no input from team
members. The leader is the main person in charge of decision making and typically
decides based on their ideas rather than solid evidence. While this style of leadership may
seem harsh to some it has opened a door to success for Steve Jobs.
 Through his innovative ideas, Jobs has created one of the most successful tech
companies on the globe. Though his attitude and leadership style may have come off as
cocky to some, his dedication to innovation and design has surely benefited not only his
company, Apple, but consumers all over the world.
Jobs understood the importance of taking risks and could be considered one of the
biggest risk taking leaders in the world. Even though during his career he made mistakes,
he was always the first to learn from them and grow with what was necessary to succeed.

 What challenging event in his career happened? What did he do when it happened?
Steve Jobs was kicked out of his own company. When Steve Jobs returned to
Apple and turned the company into a sensational powerhouse, he was hailed as a genius
(and he pocketed billions). But that level of success had eluded Jobs for decades. After
starting Apple with partner Steve Wozniak, Jobs was booted out of the company after too
many failed projects. Resentful but determined, Jobs started a new company, NeXT,
whose hardware failed catastrophically. Fortunately, the software division was
successful, and Apple's acquisition of that division put Jobs back in charge. The rest is
history.
Steve Jobs is lasting evidence that you should never count somebody out (even
yourself). Instead of wallowing in self-defeat, he poured his efforts into new enterprises,
and constantly refined his visions until he earned his way back to the top of Apple. Even
if someone pushes you back, you have to keep moving forward.

 What companes did he created?

He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple
Inc., the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar, a member of The Walt Disney
Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar, and the founder,
chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal
computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve
Wozniak.
 What is the explanation of the story line of Pixar movies?

Like all of the best stories, Pixar movies can help shape people in positive and
lasting ways. "I think that's one of the nice things about Pixar movies," child psychologist
Omar Gudino says. "They really deal with something that might be considered darker in
tone or more adult in subject matter in a way that's really accessible."

Research is finding that when children between 3 and 5 years old watch movies,
they come away with impressions about the natural state of the world. Even if those
young viewers can't understand or describe everything happening in the movies, they still
perceive complex emotions. The way that those emotions are portrayed can have
dramatic effects on development. A 2007 study, for example, found that preschoolers
from the US and Taiwan tended to see happiness differently depending on how it was
portrayed in storybooks. To American kids, happiness looked like excitement. To the
Taiwanese kids, it more resembled calm.

As children mature into adolescence, they gain the ability to put themselves inside
characters' heads, and they begin judging the character’s actions and values against their
own.  Whether we carry these lessons into adulthood typically comes down to how much
films get us talking, Gudino says.
  What did you learned in the story of Steve Jobs?

Steven Paul Jobs was one of the greatest visionaries and pioneers of the 21st century. He

wasn’t an engineer, did not completed his college degree, yet he was able to turnaround the near-

bankrupt Apple into the most valuable brand in the world. He not only transformed one industry

but several others such as mobile phones, computers, and movies.

1. Always focus on the positive & let go of the negative

2. Travel the world and learn new things
3. Always take a calculated risk
4. Be wise in the company you choose to keep
5. Learn from the failures and keep moving forward
6. Do only what you truly love
7. Learn from others
8. It is never too early to get started
9. Obstacles are the opportunity to succeed
10. Always remember you are not immortal

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get
your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end
because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
― Steve Jobs