Steve Jobs Research Paper

Steve Jobs helped create Apple. Most of you already knew that though. For those of you that live under a rock, Apple is an American multinational technology company that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. That’s the Wikipedia definition. My definition of Apple is a marvelous company that has brought cell phones, computers, tablets, and watches to a whole new level in the technology age. Without Steve Jobs, I wouldn’t be writing this on my MacBook Air. That’s why I decided to read Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different, because I wanted to know more about the man behind Apple. Thanks to Karen Blumenthal for making that possible by writing that biography about him. Steve Jobs went through

He was attending Reed College, a small, private school in Oregon. Keeping their promise, the Jobs found a way to send him to the pricey university. Steve realized he was draining his parents’ savings, his grades weren’t that good, and he didn’t even know what he wanted to pursue so he decided dropping out would be a good idea. Since he was liked by the Dean of Students, he was able to attend whatever classes he wanted to. “He was free to explore whatever he found intriguing---and to his surprise, some of it would pay of many years later.” (43) Jobs returned home to earn money at Atari, a video game company, to go India. In India, he learned “the power of intuition and experiential wisdom, relying on your experience and common sense,” (50) which would benefit him later on. Once he was back home, he started working for Atari again. He became close with Steve Wozniak again and even had Woz help him with his job every now and then. When Woz told Jobs he wanted to build a computer, Jobs encouraged him and helped him in ways that he couldn’t do himself. They eventually went on to build a computer company, in Job’s parents’ garage, named Apple Computer. With the help of friends, family, and financial benefactors, they were able to turn the company into something incredible. “By the time Jobs was twenty-three years old, he was worth more than $1 million. By the time he was twenty-four, he was worth more than $10

It eventually led to Sculley getting the Board to fire Jobs. Yes, they fired the guy who built Apple. But because he was fired, he was able to fund Pixar and create NeXT which were two giant accomplishments in his life that he never would have achieved if he hadn’t of been fired. Another great reason for Jobs being fired was that he met his wife during this time, and was able to focus on his growing family. Jobs even said so himself, “Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.” (175) After hitting a major low, Apple knew they needed Jobs back, and when he came back he made it great again. While Jobs was coming up with new products for Apple in 2003, he found out he had pancreatic cancer. At first he didn’t want anyone to know, but then it got worse so he had to tell the public. Steve Jobs had overcome many difficult situations in his life, but cancer wasn’t one of them. Although he never stopped living his life, he couldn’t win this fight. He kept innovating technology till the very end, he even released the iPhone and the iPad during his final years. On October 5th 2011, the world mourned the great Steve Jobs all over the world. People went to his house, Apple headquarters, and any Apple store near them to honor the man who changed the technology