The Story Of Steve Jobs: The Man Who Invented The 21st Century
Creativity and absolute ingenuity are perhaps the two words that come to mind first when we think of Steve Jobs ’life. Many believe that he was even in his own way the inventor of the 21st century. This is not just a metaphor, for the way we work, communicate, and interact with the world today is largely the handiwork of this late genius.
Steve Jobs became acquainted with the success of the business in a very short time. Jobs’ career began to rise wildly from his youth. Perhaps it was precisely because of this fact that he used to always say that neither success nor money affected him, nor did they act as his motivation to move forward. Jobs realized his dream and it was a dream worn by worn-out ideas and big shareholders. But Jobs never lost his visionary life, nor did he ever give up.
As with many other unusual creative people, Steve Jobs ’life ran between success and frustration, and among new projects – no one had previously thought of – while looking for a life that transcended previous boundaries and experiences to make history. Next, let’s take a closer look at his life.
The first years of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955. His biological parents were both college students and gave birth to a newborn baby immediately after birth. Fortunately, Jobs’s little baby was taken into a family whose members Jobs always considered his real parents and who encouraged and supported Jobs ’dreams and careers from an early age.
Jobs attended school in California and later went to Portland to begin his college studies. His years of study at Reed University highlighted his excellent abilities in terms of potential, which in turn adorned his rebellion and lack of interest.
Jobs’ way to spirituality
In 1974, Steve Jobs traveled to India in search of a whole new direction in his life and began spending time at the Ashram meditation monastery of Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba in Kainch. Jobs also studied Buddhism in the 70s at the Zen Center in Los Altos, California and became very close with his Zen master; their friendship lasted until Jobs’s death.
According to Jobs ’biography, Zen Buddhism was emphasized throughout his life and work. At a 2005 Stanford University graduation ceremony hosted by Jobs, he said:
During the 70s, Steve Jobs joined an anti-cultural movement in his home country, and that’s when he also tried psychedelic drugs. Jobs used to say that this drug experiment at the same time served as a fundamental part of his own life perspective and vision for the future.
Steve Jobs’ first computers
Jobs ’first job at computers was at Atar, where he met computer technician Steve Woznia, who also later became Apple’s co-founder along with Steve Jobs. The duo formed an almost perfect duo. Wozniak’s ingenuity as an engineer highlighted the skills of Jobs as an entrepreneur, which later became a project that had grown into a global empire.
During Jobs and Woznia, in Atar, computers were used exclusively by large companies and at that time they also cost more than an entire detached house. Wozniak built the first computer for himself, because he too wanted his own home. And that’s where it all started.
The two visionaries, Wozniak and Jobs, began selling the first self-built computers from Jobs ’parents’ garage. Although the paths of Woznia and Jobs parted over time, they managed to create amazing things together.
Apple’s adventures
In the years that followed, Apple computers spread to the technology market and acquiring their own personal computer became increasingly important to many. That’s when Apple logged on the stock market, and things started to get complicated for Jobs.
In 1984, Apple designed the first MacIntosh. MacIntosh became an invention that would later mark the time before and after home computers, but was not successfully commercialized at the time. Apple had grown into a huge company whose management did not share Jobs ’visions or passion.
It was believed that Jobs’s demanding and perfectionist nature weakened his great creativity and business visionary skills. Like all the great geniuses who changed history, Steve Jobs needed a team that could work with the same passion, the same vision, and the same border-breaking mind that Steve Jobs also found.
Finally, in 1985, Wozniak decided to leave Apple and a year later Jobs was also withdrawn from his role as CEO. Apple founder and visionary Job was now completely left without voting or operating power in his own company. Jobs decided to leave Apple altogether and pursue his daring project alone. He founded a company called Next and conquered Pixar, a computer-generated graphic film production company. Time at Pixar brought Jobs great success and increased the industry’s respect for his work.
Jobs’s return to Apple
Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, when the company had technically lagged behind its competitor Microsoft. Apple was already on the verge of bankruptcy at the time. However, Jobs’s return gave Apple a new direction. Jobs decided to cancel all projects currently underway and return the company to its own control. It was time for Steve Jobs to make history again.
Next, Jobs designed a whole new generation of innovative products such as the iPod, iPad and iPhone. In addition, he established the standard for portable digital music.
By 2008, iTunes had reached more than six million downloads and more than 200 million iPods had already been sold. In 2010, Apple introduced its iPad system to the market, and by 2012, Apple had grown into the most respected company in the world.
In an interview in 2007, Jobs said:
Premature death
A perfectionist, passionate and visionary. These three things were both his angels and demons. Jobs ’legacy remains the fruit of a passion he never sold off.
In 2003, Steve Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which led to numerous health problems. Still, he continued to work until 2009, when illness forced him to retire. Jobs died at the age of 56 in 2011 and was buried in an unnamed grave in Palo Alto, California.
Apple’s slogan “Think different” was created when Steve Jobs returned to the company.
