Steve Jobs is Co-Founder and CEO of Apple Inc. This CEO was born in San Francisco in February 1955. He was adopted as an infant by Paul and Clara Jobs. Steve's father was a machinist that manufactured lasers and Clara Jobs was an accountant and he has a biological, younger sister Mona Simpson. His wife Laurene Powell, they meet at Stanford University while he was speaking at a class. They married in 1991, and he has three children. The Apple Inc's CEO was graduated from Homestead High School in California in 1972 and attended Reed College in Portland but dropped out after one semester.
However, it was in year 1972 that he worked for Atari and Mr Jobs meet his friends Steve Wozniak, an engineering genius. In 1975, they create the Apple Inc after sold his Volkswagen micro-bus and Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator, which raised $1,300 and he guided Apply Inc grew to $2 billion company. This CEO is awards by National Technology Medal from President Reagan in 1985, Jefferson Award for Public Service in 1987 and ENtrepreneur of the Decade by Inc. magazine in 1989. However, Steve Jobs, who is decide to resign as a chairman because of power struggles in 1985. Mr Jobs start a new company called Next which producing software and not going back to hardware industry again. Despite, Next software was sold to Apple Inc in year 1996, meanwhile Jobs returned as a non-salaried adviser to to chairman Gilbert F. Amelio. In 1997, Mr Jobs negotiated deal with competitor Bill Gates of Microsoft and Microsoft agreed to invest $150 million for develop Mac versions of Microsoft Office. Steve Job was offered CEO and chairman position after Amelio ousted by Apple board.
Many people say he is a high-strung workaholic and able to motivates others with his enthusiasm. He is interesting in design job but not paper work, he receive 300 mails per day. Recently, the CEO is paid $1 a year from Apple because he have to focus on his health plan.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
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