Steven Paul Jobs

Born February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California, USA. UU.) Is a famous American businessman and computer scientist, president of Apple Inc. and maximum individual shareholder of The Walt Disney Company. It is one of the most important figures in the computer industry and digital entertainment. Along with co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, Jobs helped popularize the personal computer in the late 70s. He was one of the first to glimpse the potential of systems Graphical User Interface (GUI). After having problems with the senior management of the company he founded, Jobs was fired from Apple Computer in 1985, returning to the company in 1997, where he is executive director since then. Because of contract requirements, Wozniak had to make known their intention to build a personal computer company he worked for Hewlett-Packard, who dismissed the idea as ridiculous. He was born in 1976 and Apple Computer Company. After gaining the first personal computer, named Apple I, Jobs is dedicated to its promotion and other computer enthusiasts, shopping and digital electronics fairs, selling about 200 copies. Since then, Apple's growth was spectacular. In just 10 years Apple has become a company with 4,000 employees and Jobs, with 27 years in the youngest millionaire in 1982. In early 1983 came into Lisa, a computer designed especially for people with little experience with computers. Its price, more expensive than most personal computers of the competition, did not provide the new product was exactly a sales success, Apple lost about half of its market share for IBM. In an attempt to maintain the competitiveness of the company, Steve persuaded John Sculley, CEO of Pepsi-Cola to take control of Apple.1 In Apple's annual conference of January 24, 1984, Jobs has a great expectation before the first commercial computer with graphical user interface, Apple Macintosh. Macintosh is not reached, however, expected commercial expectations. Towards the end of 1984 the differences between Sculley and Jobs were becoming increasingly insurmountable, to the point of the relationship deteriorate. In May 1985, amid a deep internal restructuring that resulted in the dismissal of 1,200 employees, Sculley relegated Jobs of his duties as leader of the Macintosh division. After several months of resignation, September 13, 1985, Steve Jobs left the company he had founded