Apple
In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari. Several months later he left Atari. In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computers. The pair started in the Jobs family garage, and funded their company after Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak sold his much loved scientific calculator. Wozniak conceived a series of user-friendly personal computers, and with Jobs in charge of marketing Apple first marketed the computers for $666.66 each. The Apple I earned the corporation $774,000. Three years after the release of Apple's second model, the Apple II, sales increased by 700 percent, to $139 million. In 1980, Apple Computer became a publicly traded company, with a market value of $1.2 billion on the very first day of trading. Jobs looked to marketing expert John Scully of Pepsi-Cola to help fill the role of Apple's president.
NeXT,Inc/Pixar
In 1985 Steve Jobs was forced to resign as Apple's CEO after IBM surpassed Apple's sales. After that he started a new hardware and software called NeXT, Inc. The next year Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios. Believing in Pixar's potential, Jobs first invested $50 million of his own money into the company. Pixar Studios went on to produce popular animation films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Pixar's films have earned $4 billion. The studio merged with Walt Disney in 2006, making Steve Jobs Disney's biggest shareholder.
Returning To Apple
NeXT, Inc. failed in its attempts to sell its specialized operating system to America. Apple eventually bought the company in 1997 for $429 million. That same year, Jobs returned as Apple's CEO.
Inventions
Jobs contributed so many things to Apple such as the iPhone, iMac, iPod, and iPad that has made them the 18th biggest company according to their revenue, also making him the 100th biggest billionaire in 2011.
In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari. Several months later he left Atari. In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computers. The pair started in the Jobs family garage, and funded their company after Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak sold his much loved scientific calculator. Wozniak conceived a series of user-friendly personal computers, and with Jobs in charge of marketing Apple first marketed the computers for $666.66 each. The Apple I earned the corporation $774,000. Three years after the release of Apple's second model, the Apple II, sales increased by 700 percent, to $139 million. In 1980, Apple Computer became a publicly traded company, with a market value of $1.2 billion on the very first day of trading. Jobs looked to marketing expert John Scully of Pepsi-Cola to help fill the role of Apple's president.
NeXT,Inc/Pixar
In 1985 Steve Jobs was forced to resign as Apple's CEO after IBM surpassed Apple's sales. After that he started a new hardware and software called NeXT, Inc. The next year Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios. Believing in Pixar's potential, Jobs first invested $50 million of his own money into the company. Pixar Studios went on to produce popular animation films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Pixar's films have earned $4 billion. The studio merged with Walt Disney in 2006, making Steve Jobs Disney's biggest shareholder.
Returning To Apple
NeXT, Inc. failed in its attempts to sell its specialized operating system to America. Apple eventually bought the company in 1997 for $429 million. That same year, Jobs returned as Apple's CEO.
Inventions
Jobs contributed so many things to Apple such as the iPhone, iMac, iPod, and iPad that has made them the 18th biggest company according to their revenue, also making him the 100th biggest billionaire in 2011.