Steve Jobs College Dropout

When individuals hear the term “college drop out,” a variety of negative connotations come to their mind. People typically think that if individuals drop out of college, their life will amount to nothing. This was not the case with Steve Jobs. Born in February of 1955, and dying in October of 2011, Jobs made his mark on the world one step at a time. Jobs grew up in San Francisco, California, adopted, and extremely intelligent. He was asked to start high school early as his learning rate was higher than most individuals in his grade, although his parents declined the offer. When he graduated high school, he decided to enroll in Reed College, located in Portland, Oregon. His grades were poor because he was bored in classes. He dropped out of

Apple produces popular digital gadgets such as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod. Jobs and his fellow founder, Steve Wozniak, took part in creating the multi-billion (soon to be trillion) dollar company known as Apple. At the age of twenty, starting in his parents’ garage, Jobs sold his Volkswagen in order to gain enough money to start his new business. In 1976, the Apple 1 was introduced. This was the first microcomputer that hooked up to a keyboard and monitor. Immediately Apple was a huge success, however, after a few more inventions that were less popular than the Apple 1, the company began to go downhill. In 1983, Jobs and the board of directors, people he had previously appointed, had a disagreeance. Jobs became angry with his bosses and just two short years later, sold his shares and left the company that he had envisioned. Jobs launched another business, NeXT Computer Company. Although this business was not a huge victory, in 1996 Apple bought the company for $400 million and reappointed Jobs as an advisor out of desperation. Developers had failed to create a newer computer, and the market had dropped more than five percent. The company hoped that Jobs could turn their bad luck around. Just a few months later, Jobs became the CEO of Apple. Jobs found investors, made computers faster, boasted sales, and saved the company that he took part in creating. Thanks to Jobs, Apple has

In 1986, Jobs bought the computer graphics division of a company called Lucasfilm, but quickly renamed the group “Pixar.” Well-known Disney had long been creating popular animated movies such as Snow White, Dumbo, and Bambi. Disney films took years to make sometimes, each frame had to be hand drawn and painted before it could be made into a movie. The company looked for a computerized method, and Jobs believed that Pixar could be the perfect animation film studio for the job. With Jobs’ business skills and his persuasive personality, Disney agreed to a three-film movie contract with Pixar. The first movie in the making was being called Toy Story. Currently, people know the movie Toy Story as one of the greatest kid movies to be made, but at the time, Pixar was struggling to make this movie successful. Toy Story took years to make, but after the film was released, it became one of Hollywood’s top one hundred films of all time. After Pixar hit the stock market, Jobs became a billionaire in just one day. He was confident in his company, and believed there would be bigger films to come. After the release of Toy Story, Pixar was a household name. Monsters Inc., The Incredibles, and Finding Nemo are all products of Pixar’s success. Without Jobs’ charismatic personality and aggressive business style, Pixar would not be the company that it is today, and movies would not be as