Analysis of Leadership Characteristics of Steve Jobs; Founder of Apple Company

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Analysis of leadership characteristics of Steve Jobs; Founder of APPLE Company Life story of Steve Jobs Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955. His biological parents are Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali, but gave him up for adoption to a lower middle-class couple from south of the Bay Area, Paul and Clara Jobs. It was not until Jobs was 27 that he was able to uncover information on his biological parents. Jobs grew up in California. In his high school years, he was already fascinated with electronics. In 1969, he met Steve Wozniak, better known as ‘Woz’, who was five years older, and already an electronics whiz. Jobs attended college, but soon dropped out. He embraced the hippie lifestyle – drugs, Zen and Eastern philosophy. In 1974, he took a position as a video game designer with Atari. Several months later, he left Atari to find spiritual enlightenment in India. After months spent traveling through India in rags, he returned to California and started a thriving business with Woz. They built and sold ‘blue boxes’ that let users make long distance calls for free. In 1976, Jobs, then 21, and Wozniak started a new business to build computers for hobbyists. Jobs chose the name Apple for his computers. Steve Jobs saw that many people were interested in his friend Woz’s brilliant amateur work – a computer circuit board – and suggested that they sell the board to them. Apple Computer was born. “APPLE Business” Apple’s first year in business consisted of assembling the boards in Steve’s garage and sell them. Meanwhile, Woz worked on a new, much-improved computer, the Apple II, which he finished in 1977. Both Woz and Steve knew the Apple II was a breakthrough computer, much more advanced than anything the market had ever seen. Thus, Steve set out to find venture capitalists to fund Apple’s expansion. After a

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