Steve Jobs – The Visionary and Innovator
                     Steve Jobs – 
The Visionary and 
Innovator
Introduction
 Steve Jobs ,  the Apple founder and former CEO who 
invented and masterfu l ly  marketed ever-s leeker 
gadgets  that t ransformed everyday technology,  f rom 
the personal  computer to the iPod and iPhone.
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An extraordinary 
innovator
 An extraordinary innovator ,  Steve Jobs  has had 241 
patents  registered to his  name or  as a co - inventor.  
Many of  the products he invented went on to be hi ts  
in the  tech wor ld,  notably  the iPhone.  
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Birth
 Born in 1955 to a Syr ian father and American mother,  
Jobs was g iven up for  adoption to Paul  and Clara  Jobs .  
Nei ther of  them were univers i ty  graduates ,  but  they 
promised to  put  him through col lege.
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Early Life
 During his  ear ly  years,  he struggled in  t radit ional  
c lassrooms and faced some chal lenges in school .  The 
future genius  was a loner and often bul l ied by 
c lassmates,  but  i t  d id not  hinder  h is  progress .
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Interest in electronics
 When he was 10,  Jobs took a  keen interest  in 
e lectronics.  He became fr iends wi th a l l  the  engineers 
in the ne ighborhood.  At  the  age of  13,  he got  a 
summer job wi th Hewlett-Packard after  co ld-cal l ing 
them for  some e lectronic  parts .  Then dur ing h is  h igh 
school  years ,  he  met his  future  bus iness partner 
Steve Wozniak.
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Low-cost digital blue box
 By his  senior  year in  late  1971,  Jobs became 
fasc inated with e lectronics and completed h is  fi rst  
pro ject  w i th Steve Wozniak — the low-cost d igi ta l  
b lue box.  The sales were  excel lent and th is  gave 
them the idea that  they could do wonders.  
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Birth of Apple
 After  some st ints  with Atar i  and a  spir i tual  t r ip in 
India came the bi r th of  Apple.  In  1976,  Wozniak and 
Jobs jo ined forces  once again with operat ions 
beginning in the latter ’s  bedroom.  There  was a thi rd 
co - founder by the name of  Ronald Wayne,  but  he 
d idn’t  s tay in the p icture  for  very long.
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NeXT
 Most people associate Jobs'  success  with Apple,  but 
in the  ear ly days,  Jobs'  re lat ionship wi th Apple 
proved to be a rocky one.  After  be ing fi red from the 
company he founded in  1985,  Jobs  founded NeXT,  a 
fi rm that  created computers for  business and 
educat ional  needs.  
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Pixar
 Jobs '  $5 mi l l ion acquis i t ion of  Lucasfi lms'  Computer 
Graphic  Div is ion in 1986 proved to  be a wise 
investment.
  The potent ia l  he saw in the company—later  renamed 
Pixar—paid off  when he sold i t  to  Disney (DIS)  in 
2006 for  $7.4  b i l l ion.
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Apple
 Jobs’  development of  new product  l ines whi le  at  the 
helm of  Apple  cont inues to impact  count less 
indiv iduals  and has created enormous success for  the 
company.
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