Steve Jobs

Ella Petrová

Steve Jobs was the founder, CEO and chairman of the board of Apple and at the same time one of the most prominent figures in the computer industry of the last forty years. In 1976, together with Steve Wozniak, he founded Apple, which developed some of the first successful personal computers.

Steve was adopted. He was a very specific person. Very often it happens that someone who became such a rich person earlier in his beginnings was actually a completely poor and very strange living person. During his university studies he slept on the floor of his friends' rooms and earned food by returning Coke bottles. At this time he also started a diet consisting only of apples and carrots. He believed that this would prevent his body from excreting body odors and Jobs would not need to shower daily.

Honestly I'm blown away by the fact how someone can achieve something that monumental. When I was talking about other People that changed the world, they all somehow belong to show business (even Donald Trump is not just a politician or businessman). And basically America or Hollywood in particular is meant to "produce" celebrities. However Steve Jobs is literally self-made. And his story is very interesting.

Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer in Jobs's parents' garage to sell their computers. After some time Jobs managed to be a CEO of Apple, he was persuasive and charismatic, however some employees saw him as an eccentric, moody manager. He was cooperating with John Sculley, although after some time they couldn't agree on anything. Their feud escalated and in 1985 Apple's board agreed with Sculley and barred Jobs from continuing his managerial duties at the head of the Macintosh division. Jobs was fired from Apple five months later and founded NeXT Inc. that same year. Pixar film studios also became famous under his leadership. Eventually after some time Jobs announced his return to Apple. The brand subsequently focused on the production and improvement of iMacs, iPhones, iPods or iPads. Apple is a pioneering brand, followed by countless other companies around the world. Honestly everyone wants something from Apple and whoever says no wants it even more.

Unfortunately Steve Jobs died quite young, he was only 56 years old. The cause of death was respiratory arrest caused by the spread of cancer from the pancreas to other organs.

He said many beautiful quotes, I wanted to pick just one which I liked the most. It says: ,,It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people."