https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7 A man who wanted to make a difference en-us 2016-06-09 15:39:36 UTC 2016-11-17 16:49:17 UTC hello@padlet.com arandad https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114233331 "The ones who are crazy enough who think that they can change the world, are the ones who do" (Steve Jobs).]]> 2016-06-09 15:44:24 UTC https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114233331 arandad https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114234783 Steve Jobs was born on February 24th, 1955 in San Francisco. His parents put him up for adoption, and was taken by Clara and Paul Jobs. He then lived in Mountain View California (now known as Silicon Valley), where he spent is childhood and teenage years. He was very smart, and actually was suggested to skip to high school in fourth grade, although his parents declined. Although he was very intelligent, this did cause set backs. He was a constant prankster due to boredom and his fourth grade teacher even needed to bribe him to study. He, outside of school, spent most of his time with his father in their garage, working on taking apart and re construction electronics. Soon enough he enrolled into Homestead High School, and met his future partner, Steve Wozniak, in creating his future company, Apple. ]]> 2016-06-09 15:55:22 UTC https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114234783 arandad https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114236226 After high school, Steve was accepted into Reed College in Portland, Oregon, only to drop out after 6 months. He then walked in on creative classes from the school for the next 18 months. In fact, Steve later remarked that one Calligraphy class is what inspired his love in typography  ]]> 2016-06-09 16:07:46 UTC https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114236226 arandad https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114236696 In 1974, Steve was hired by Atari as a game designer. He left after several months, and traveled to India for reasons such as spiritual enlightenment, and experimenting with drugs. It was in 1976, that he finally got back with Wozniak and built the Apple Computer. This took place in the Jobs family garage, and they funded themselves when Jobs sold his Volkswagen Bus, and Wozniak sold his scientific calculator.

]]> 2016-06-09 16:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114236696 arandad https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114344666 Set at a price at $666.66, the Apple 1 boomed in sales. Just the selling of the computer itself gave the company around $774,000.00. With the next Apple Computer under development, Steve Jobs was in charge of marketing, and Wozniak in charge of developing.]]> 2016-06-10 15:54:08 UTC https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114344666 arandad https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114344958 Only three years after the release of the Apple 1, the Apple 2 was released. This increased the income by over 179 times, for over $139 million dollars in total.]]> 2016-06-10 15:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114344958 arandad https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114345370 In 1980, Apple had a market value of over 1.2 billion dollars. To help out, Jobs also hired John Sculley to be the next CEO of the company. This was the highlight of the early 1980's for Apple. Numerous flaws were found in the new products developed, which led to Sculley believing Jobs was hurting the company. Jobs later left and started his own company, called NeXT. Inc.]]> 2016-06-10 16:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114345370 arandad https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114346330 2016-06-10 16:11:41 UTC https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114346330 arandad https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114346616 2016-06-10 16:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114346616 arandad https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114393083 After leaving Apple, Jobs started his own company, in which he bought another company form George Lucas. This later was turned into Pixar Animation Studios, which went on to create movies such as Toy Story, and Finding Nemo. They then, merged with Disney and made Jobs the biggest share holder in the Disney world.       ]]> 2016-06-11 20:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114393083 arandad https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114395153 Although Pixar was very successful, it was unsuccessful in selling its company. This is until Apple bought it in 1996 for 429 million dollars. Jobs resumed is position as CEO, and soon enough he developed the iMac and other such products.]]> 2016-06-11 22:49:15 UTC https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114395153 arandad https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114432773 2016-06-12 23:40:22 UTC https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114432773 arandad https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114432806 In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumor, a form of pancreatic cancer that was very uncommon. Executives quickly got worried because they were afraid that Job's sickness would cause shareholders to drop out but, after 9 months, Jobs finally decided to have the surgery which successfully removed the tumor.]]> 2016-06-12 23:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114432806 arandad https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114432959 Products such as the iPod, Macbook Air, and iPhone are released, and sales are soaring. In 2007, the price per stock was an astonishing $199.99, which led to a 1.5 billion dollar profit. Throughout this, iTunes, made it to #2 in the music selling world, only to be topped by Walmart. This helped greatly to the taking of the #1 spot on Fortune'''s magazine list of "America's Most Admired Companies".]]> 2016-06-12 23:46:15 UTC https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114432959 arandad https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114434460 In October 5th, 2011, Jobs died from cancer. He was 56 years old.]]> 2016-06-13 00:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114434460 arandad https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114434554 2016-06-13 00:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/arandad/pjsjwf8vglz7/wish/114434554