By Abhishek Chhabra

Steve Jobs
In this typed document I will be talking about a very famous leader known as Steve
Jobs. His name is known around the world because he was the co-founder for the
company Apple. He also was the CEO of Pixar and was the CEO of NeXT (a computer
and software company). Steve jobs was an entrepreneur and an inventor. He died a
few years ago and it was a very sad time but he will never be forgotten. Steve Jobs
lived a very amazing life. To commemorate his life here is a timeline of his life.
1955- Steve Jobs was born.
1972- Steve Jobs drops out of Reed College in Portland at the end of one semester.
1976- Jobs teams up with Wozniak to build the first ever Apple I computer. They put
it up for sale that summer for $666.66.
1977- Apple is incorporated. Sales soar to 1 million a year. Apple II computer is
released.
1978- Jobs daughter is born (Lisa).
1983- A Lisa Computer goes on sale.
1985- Jobs and Wozniak resign from Apple after clash with CEO.
1986- Jobs founds NeXT Inc. and buys Pixar for 10 million.
1989- First NeXT computer goes up for $6,500.
1996- Apple buys NeXT for $430 million.
1997- Jobs returns to Apple has an advisor and puts a stop to Mac clones.

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2000- Steve Jobs is named CEO of Apple.
2001- First iPod goes up for sale.
2003- Apple launches ITunes with 200,000 songs selling at 99 cents a song.
2004- Jobs undergoes surgery for a rare but curable form of pancreatic cancer.
Apple discloses his illness after the fact.
2006- Disney buys Pixar for $7.4 billion dollars and Jobs becomes Disneys largest
individual shareholder.
2007- First IPhone is released.
2008- People assume Jobs is ill because of a weight loss.
2009-Jobs talks about severe weight loss by saying he has a treatable hormone
imbalance and that he will continue to run Apple. Days later he announces he will
be on medical leave. He comes back in June. He had received a liver transplant.
Jan 17, 2011- Jobs takes another medical leave with no saying for how long.
Aug. 24, 2011- Apple announces that Jobs is resigning as CEO.
October 5, 2011- Jobs dies after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
Jobs was a very important leader but I think that Jobs was mainly a Democratic
leader and I think this because I believe that he allowed others to contribute their
ideas and thoughts to his work. By this I mean he was an open minded man. He
allowed others to contribute to his success. He listened to what other people had to
offer and he tried to work that into his ideas. But other than this I think that Jobs
was viewed as a leader because of the success he had achieved in his life. He had
done a lot of great things and the world today would not be what it is without him

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because many of the everyday household electronics we use at home, at work, at
school are made from Apple. I think that Steve Jobs is mostly a leader for the
industrial society. This means he is more of a leader for the society in which we use
electronics for because as I said before we have a lot of everyday things made my
Apple. Jobs has also motivated a lot of young people who are about the same age as
me to do something special with their life and to be successful. This is mostly
because Jobs was smart but he was smart about technology but he wasnt very
strong in school. You can make this inference by noticing that jobs dropped out of
College at the end of the first semester. Jobs fell into the role of a leader mostly
because of the choices that he made in his life. A few reasons on why I think this
would be his urge to always want to better and get better. Jobs always wanted to do
things that helped him get better and build a better company. Jobs also knew that
life was short so it was better to make the most of it. Jobs dropped out of college
because he felt like he would be wasting 4 years of his life and his decision actually
was correct. Jobs always wanted to something bigger than what he did last and
achieve higher things. He also lived his own life meaning he did not follow or suck
up to people. He did what he felt was right and it would be hard to change that. I
think that overall Steve Jobs has affected our society in a good way because I want
to go back to the part where I had said that the world wouldnt be what it is today
without him. Like Steve Jobs did many amazing things in his life and a lot of those
amazing things he had created help us with our lives every day. For example the
MacBook, The IPhone, the IPod, the IPad and last but not least the Mac. These were
just the main devices that he had created to help us with our everyday lives. So if
you really think about it the life we have in this very moment (the present) would
not be what it is without him. Therefore I would like to wrap up this paper by saying

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Steve Jobs was one crazy amazing man and he is always someone I will always
admire all my life for the success he had gotten. I hope that you have enjoyed
reading my paper and with that note I hope you enjoy my presentation.

My references:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digi
tal-media/8809981/Steve-Jobs-timeline-of-the-former-Apple-CEO.html
https://staroversky.com/blog/steve-jobs-motivation
http://www.centerforworklife.com/the-leadership-qualities-of-steve-jobs/
http://allaboutstevejobs.com/bio/timeline.php