Steve Jobs "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." -Steve Jobs By: Allison Gilbert

Biography Born February 24, 1955 San Francisco, CA Orphan; adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California in February 1955 became a multimillionaire before the age of 30 designed the Apple I computer in bedroom and built the prototype in garage Sold car and scientific calculator to raise $1,300 to start a new company

attended Hewlett-Packard seminars in California after graduating high school, attended one semester at Reed College in Portland, Oregon – Ungraduated, Physics, literature, and poetry became a video game designer for Atari, Inc., in 1974 At age 21, Jobs and Wozniak (25) built a personal computer called the Apple I – Wozniak became VP for Research and Development

In 1985, resigned as chairman to launch new hardware company NextStep, but quickly changed to software Introduced OOP (Object-Oriented Programming); allowed programmers to design software programs in less amount of time Sold NextStep to Apple in 1997 Now chairman and CEO of Apple Computers and Pixar, he pays himself an annual salary of $1

Apple Computers Maker of personal computers founded in 1976 Revolutionized personal computers with the introduction of the Apple II (1977) and the Macintosh (1984) – 4K of memory and customers use their own TV set as a monitor Go public in November at $22 a share (1980) Used a graphical user interface Starting “act 2” by launching the iMac line of computers The name “Apple” originates from a summer Jobs spent as an orchard worker in Oregon (his favorite fruit)

Pixar Academy-Award-winning animations studio, founded in 1986 Responsible for such films as Toy Story (1995), A Bug’s Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), and Monster’s Inc. (2001) – Together these films have earned more than $1.5 billion in bow office receipts Next film in Finding Nemo (2003)

Personality Is extremely demanding Perfectionist Would often reject anyone's work the first time it was shown to him – Workers deliberately presented their worst work first, saving their best for a later presentation

Things for the Future His new passion is for “objects” Objects are software modules that can be combined into new applications – much as pieces of Lego are built into toy houses