The life of Steve Jobs can serve as a classic illustration of the fact that you don't have to be born smart, beautiful and rich to achieve success. It is enough to be hardworking, purposeful and at least a little favorite of Fortune. The legendary founder of Apple managed to achieve not just success, but truly turn the world in the direction he wanted.
How it all began
It all started not as optimistic as many people think. The illegitimate son of a student and a young Syrian teacher, who was born on February 24, 1955, was not needed by his parents. The boy was adopted by a poor couple from the outskirts of San Francisco - a place that later became known as Silicon Valley.
This was one of the important circumstances that pulled through the life of Steven Paul Jobs and eventually led to the very top.
The second coincidence was an acquaintance (in 1969) with Steve Wozniak, a fellow hippie movement, a five-year age difference with whom did not interfere with their friendship. If the future founder of Apple during his school years could well be known as a bored slacker, then Wozniakwas truly a child prodigy.
The Stevens' love for electronics united, which resulted in a common business. Wozniak created, nothing less than the first personal computer, Jobs found buyers and regularly tossed up ideas for improvement.
The name of the company - "Apple" and its symbol, which was invented by 21-year-old Steve Jobs, is not just a tribute to the love of fruits, but a reminder of how the law of universal gravitation was discovered. The appearance of a bitten off piece on the emblem, the founder of Apple explained very prosaically: “So as not to be confused with a tomato.”
Over the next four years, the Apple-2 PC took America by storm, Apple became an industry leader, and its young founders became millionaires. Soon Wozniak, however, retired, and Jobs, on the contrary, raised the bar of his ambitions to great heights.
What happened next
And then there was the creation of the most advanced Macintosh computer, the release of which began in January 1984. A very convenient and very expensive Macintosh was equipped with such a revolutionary novelty as a computer mouse.
Macintosh was the main triumph experienced by the founder of Apple, and the cause of a deep crisis that eventually overtook the company and Jobs himself.
It all happened catastrophically fast. Bill Gates, a programmer who worked for Apple for some time and was still unknown to anyone, introduced the world to the Windows operating system, which was based on Macintosh technologies. Sales volumes of the latter not only fell,but collapsed. Steve Jobs was fired from the company.
After several months of deep depression, he created Next, and a year later he acquired Pixar. Soon the famous and truly revolutionary cartoon "Toy Story" was born, marking the beginning of a new era in the history of animation.
Apple founder Steve Jobs continued to improve the world.
Apple Resurgence
In 1997, Steve Jobs returned to Apple at a time when the company was on the brink of disaster. Jobs's goal was not just the revival of lost positions, but a real triumph.
To achieve this goal, he ended litigation with Gates and signed an agreement with him to provide software, as well as a solid financial injection. As a result of this deal, iMac appeared - a computer consisting of one monitor, incomparably more democratic and bright than all its predecessors.
And Apple's next innovation (in 2001) was the iPod, the original portable music listening device. His appearance finally approved the company in a leading position. But the real explosion came in 2007 when the world saw the first iPhone. And three years later, Steve Jobs presented another of his brilliant creations - the iPad.
He tried to do everything and a little more. The people around were amazed by the energy and some kind of childish, feverish enthusiasm with which Jobs released his offspring one after another. He was driven by a serious illness, a fight with which lasted six years. Steve Jobs still lost. He passed away in October 2011.
Probably, there is no person in the modern civilized world who does not know about the unique technologies released under the “bitten apple” emblem. And absolutely everyone knows who the founder of Apple is. For Steven Jobs still managed to really surprise the whole world!
