Steve Jobs Research Paper

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Steve Jobs was born on 1955 in San Francisco. Jobs was adopted at birth by Paul and Carla. Jobs later learned reading with mom before going to school. After he learned reading with his mom, he later learned electronics from tinkering with dad. When Jobs went to school one of the things he did was prank his school peers. When in school Jobs also met his best friend named Steve Wozniak. When Jobs finally got to Reed College he dropped out of college to go work on making computers.

Once out of collage Jobs and his friends invented the first apple computer in Jobs’ garage. Once the first Apple computer was made, it was named the Apple One computer and, in total earnings it made $774,000. When Jobs and his friends came out with Apple Two computer, …show more content…

Jobs hired John Scully from Pepsi Cola to be Apples CEO. When Windows came out, apple started going down in business because Windows was an operating system that all computer companies could use on their computers. Scully thought that Jobs was hurting Apple so he fired Jobs.

Once Jobs got fired, he set off to make a new company called NeXT Inc. The next year, Jobs purchased an animation company from George Locus which later became Pixar. Jobs believed that Pixar would be a success so he invested $50,000,000 of his own money into it. After Jobs invested $50,000,000 into Pixar, Pixar came out with some of today’s most popular videos like; Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and the Incredibles.

Pixar eventually made $4,000,000,000. Even though Pixar was doing good NeXT couldn’t sell its operating to Americans. Apple eventually bought NeXT Inc. for $429,000,000 and the next year Jobs got his job back as Apples CEO. Once Jobs got back into Apple he invented the iMac computer. In 2003 Jobs found out that he had a neuroendocrine tumor, which was a rare but fixable tumor. Jobs postponed surgery for eight years, which made the other employees worried that he might

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