[engoo] Daily news: Leading a Technology Revolution: Who Was Steve Jobs?

Steve Jobs is best known as the co-founder of Apple Inc. and was a leader of the technological revolution in personal home computing. At the time of his death in 2011, he had a net worth of $7 billion.

 

Steven Paul Jobs was born in 1955 and was raised in what would become known as California's Silicon Valley. The area would later become a hub of technological innovation, in part thanks to Jobs' contributions.

 

In 1976, when Jobs was just 21 years old, he and his friend Steve Wozniak started what was then called Apple Computer in Jobs' family's garage. Wozniak's idea was to create small personal computers that could be used by anybody, while Jobs would handle the marketing.

 

The two sold the Apple I — a circuit board built by Wozniak that was designed to be sold to computer hobbyists. In 1977 they created the Apple II, which, with its keyboard and plastic case, was a precursor to the personal computers that we still use today.

 

The Apple II was a hit. By the time the company stopped selling them in 1993, about 5 million had been sold. In 1981 the company went public with a valuation of $1.8 billion and in 1983 it was added to the Fortune 500 list faster than any other company had at the time.

 

In 1985 Jobs was fired from the company he had helped create. He then started NeXT Inc., and bought controlling shares in the animation company Pixar. In 1996 a struggling Apple bought NeXT Inc. for $400 million, bringing Jobs back to the company.

 

Over the next few years Jobs saved Apple from collapsing with products such as the iMac, iTunes, the iPod, and perhaps most famously the iPhone, which changed the way people used cell phones and brought touch screen technology into the hands of the general public.

 

Jobs passed away at the age of 56 due to cancer. He left behind a company now worth over $2.7 trillion, and a legacy of innovation in technology, marketing and business.

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What did you know about Steve Jobs before reading this article?

• Actually, I already knew what this article covered as I had read his autobiography.
• Such as the fact that he got fired from Apple in the middle and he moved to Pixar at that time.

 

Do you find it surprising that Jobs started Apple when he was just 21?

• Of course. I think he was an extraordinary man
• When I look back on when I was 21,,, I was doing military service.
• I think I just wondered about tomorrow’s TV program back then. I was immature

Do you own any Apple products? If so, are you happy with them?

• Yes. I have Mac book, ipad, Apple Pencil, and iPhone.
• I’m very satisfied with using those items
• I like its sophisticated UX / UI

Do you expect Apple's value to continue to rise in years to come?

• Sure. I am actually investing in Apple.
• I believe Apple will grow further 
• It is likely to strengthen its the ecosystem
• In my case, for example, I was just iPhone user.. but I got into its ecosystem as time goes by 
• And futhermore, as far as I know, Apple is preparing for Apple Car
• If it is released, apple is likely to “quantum jump”

In your opinion, what are the world's most innovative companies?

• Netflix is most innovate company
• As it changed our way of watching TV shows or Movie
• When I was in military service, I had to take a leave of absence from the university for 2 years.

What were your professional aspirations when you were 21?

• As I said…

Have you ever thought about starting a business?

• Yes.. but it needs lots of resources money and time..
• An I have my family to support.. so I couldn’t try 

If you could take business lessons from anyone, who would you choose?

• I would go for "Jeff bezos" who was the CEO of Amazone
• Because i fully agreed with his mind about way of earning in platform business
• First, get customer, make earning lately.