Steve Jobs Research Paper

Steve Jobs After all that he had been through to make Apple a household name, Steve Jobs was fired from his own company, forcing him to start over. Jobs’s early trials and tribulations have shaped both his companies and his personality, and made him the charismatic genius known today. Despite the challenges he faced in his early beginnings, Jobs was able to revolutionize the modern era of technology, and become one of the world’s most recognizable names. Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, and was adopted to Paul and Clara Jobs. He had one adopted sibling, Patty, but found out later in life that he had a biological younger sister. As a kid, he was known to pull many pranks, such as switching the locks on all

Hill in fourth grade and a few others, I would absolutely have ended up in jail,” Jobs said. In fact, Steve rejected religion after learning from a priest that God knew people were starving across the world. In spite of all of this, he loved working with electronics, and realized this love after visiting a Hewlett-Packard Explorers club, where he could listen to engineers tell stories of their inventions. During high school, Jobs met Steve Wozniak while working on a project, and they eventually became business partners and best friends. Wozniak introduced Jobs back into his days of pulling pranks, and eventually started an illegal business selling “blue boxes,” which allowed the user to get away with calling anywhere around the world, by emitting a tone to capture a phone line for free. They began to sell them for $150, equivalent to almost $1,000 today! While selling these boxes, Jobs began to try LSD, a popular drug in the 70’s that brought the user to a deeper state of consciousness. In an interview, he mentioned that taking these drugs was one of the most important things he did in his life. Despite making a lot of profit while using

In 1972, Jobs went to work for Atari, who had recently released Pong, which was an instant success. However, Jobs decided shortly after joining the company that he had to quit in order to travel to India. However, his bosses decided that on the way there he would fix a technical problem in Germany. If he could do so, they would pay for his expenses to get to India. Once there, Jobs and his friend Daniel Kottke went on a spiritual mission that deeply moved them. Jobs said that his time in India taught “the power of intuition and experiential wisdom.” After returning home, Jobs continued his busy life; working for Atari, studying Zen, and auditing a physics class. After working on a new game, Gran Trak 10, Jobs recruited Wozniak to help program the game, and even offered to split the $700 due to him. Afterwards, Jobs received a bonus of $5,000, because of the extraordinary result of the project. However, Steve only paid Woz the $350 he originally offered, and no more. Despite his boss insisting he was paid a bonus, Jobs denies that the bonus was ever given to him. During all of this Jobs and Woz had been attending computer clubs. It was at this club where they learned about the new Intel microprocessor, which could be used in computers to make them run all sorts of new functions. Woz immediately began to design a computer that could run these functions, and went to Jobs for help with it.