Steve Jobs's Success Story

Co-Founder and Mastermind of Apple

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

On February 24 1955, a man was born who would have change the whole world in the future. Not only by creating the Apple Inc. but changing the way we communicate. His contribution to the scientific world is enormous and his success story could be the leading path for many growing computer scientists. Drawing inspiration from Steve Jobs — studying him, and learning from him, now that could give you strength to achieve your goals.

Young Steve grew up in a valley which was already turning into the world center of computer technology: Silicon Valley. In his early ears he showed his interests into electronics and met Stephen Wozniak — commonly known as Woz with whom he shared his visions in computer technology. Before Steve began to work with Woz, he went to the Reed College in Oregon. He spent there only one semester after which he dropped out and spent a lot of time learning about Eastern mysticism and diets in his hippie period.

Always when we hear the name of Steve Jobs our first association leads to Apple. It all began with assembling the boards in Steve’s garage and driving to local computer stores to try and sell them. The Apple computer was much more advanced product than the others on the market, that’s why Steve set out to find venture capitalists to fund Apple’s expansion. The success was enormous and soon the product became the symbol of the personal computing revolution worldwide. The company grew fast and as a result in December 1980, when he was only 25, his net worth passed the $200 million mark on that day. After the success of the Apple products, Steve focused his energy on other projects like the Lisa computer, which was a breakthrough because it used a graphical user interface instead of a command-line interface. Unfortunately Steve was thrown out of the Lisa project, that’s why he took something as an act of “revenge” by taking over a small project called Macintosh. It’s success was no wonder but after few years, again because of his arrogance, Steve was kicked out of this project. That was his life, so he started travelling looking around for other ways to spend his creativity. Suddenly in 1985 he had the chance to share his dream in making animated movies with computers. He was introduced to a small team of brilliant computer graphics experts that George Lucas was trying to sell, so he gathered the team and bought the company for $10 Million in 1986, incorporating it as Pixar. In the next years Steve started other projects like the NeXt Computers which however didn’t sell. In addition to the NeXt “failure” his investment in Pixar also seemed to lead nowhere, so after his devastation, he spent more time with his son Reed and his wife Laurene, whom he had married in 1991.

In the course of the next years Steve had a great success with Pixar, taking part in the Toy Story movie, which raised his net worth to over $1.5 billion! Meanwhile in 1997 the Apple Company announced losses of $700 million, so it was the perfect time for Steve Jobs and his comeback. He quickly gave confidence in the whole Apple community and brought the company back to it’s full greatness. In 2000 Steve accepted to become full CEO of Apple – that was the first time ever in the history of a man being CEO of two companies at the same time!

However the biggest success in Apple came from the unexpected source iPod. It turned to be the “must-have-music player” for everyone. The products such as the iPad (Apple’s iOS-based tablet, which Steve unveiled on January 27, 2010) the MacBook and others are the most prefered in the world’s society. Steve Jobs is truly an extraordinary man who opened a new page in the technological world. People such as him are those, who write the pages in the world history book.

Unfortunately sometimes life is unfair even to the ones who make the world evolve. In 2004 Steve announced that he had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his pancreas.So in August 2011, Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, but remained at the company as chairman of the company's board.

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