Mr.

Steven Paul Jobs

Introduction: Steve Paul Jobs is an American businessman, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc.
and former CEO of Studios. In 1970s, Jobs with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, created one
of the first commercially successful personal computers. In 1980s, Jobs was among the first to
see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface. After losing a power
struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded neXT, a
computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business
markets. NeXT's subsequent 1997 buyout by Apple Computer Inc. brought Jobs back to the
company he co-founded, and he has served as its CEO since then.

Early life: He was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco and was adopted by Paul and
Clara. Jobs of Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California who named him Steven Paul. His
biological parents, Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali — a graduate student from
Syria who became a political science professor — later married and gave birth to Jobs' sister, the
novelist Mona Simpson.

Education: Jobs attended Cupertino Junior High School and Homestead High School in Cupertino,
California, and frequented after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California.
He was soon hired there and worked with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee. In 1972, Jobs
graduated from high school and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Although he dropped out
after only one semester, he continued auditing classes at Reed, such as one in calligraphy. "If I had never
dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or
proportionally spaced fonts".

Career: He took a job as a technician at Atari, a manufacturer of popular video games, with the
primary intent of saving money for a spiritual retreat to India. Jobs then traveled to India with a
Reed College friend, Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment. He came back a
Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing. Than, Jobs experimented
with psychedelics, calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things he
had done in his life." He has stated that people around him who did not share his countercultural
roots could not fully relate to his thinking. He returned to his previous job at Atari and was given
the task of creating a circuit board for the game Breakout. According to Atari founder Nolan
Bushnell, Atari had offered US$100 for each chip that was reduced in the machine. Jobs had
little interest or knowledge in circuit board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the
bonus evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Much to the
amazement of Atari, Wozniak reduced the number of chips by 50, a design so tight that it was
impossible to reproduce on an assembly line.
Leadership Theories:

 He is an Aggressive leader.
 He believes on Innovation.
 He is a Situational leader.
 Goal commitment theory.

Learning’s: The major learning’s from the life of Mr. Jobs are :

 Always look out for something new.

 Never give-up.
 Think out of box.
 Be creative.
 Always have a learning attitude.

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