Steve Jobs

Shawn Shannon

Professor Fleury-Lawson

Business and Society

17 October 2011

Most people associate Steve Jobs with just Apple. I know I did until he recently passed and I saw a few videos on his life. Yeah he was known for his work with Apple but there was a lot more behind him than people knew and he did do many other things for technology.

Steve didn’t experience the same childhood that most kids have. His biological parents gave him up for adoption after his birth because they wanted their son to be raised by two people who graduated from college. In a crazy turn of events after the birth, they were able to find a family to raise their son. But when Steve’s biological parents found out that the adoption mother didn’t graduate college, and the father didn’t graduate high school they didn’t want them to raise their son. The adoption parents gave their word that they would make sure that Steve graduated from college, so they signed the final papers. They did everything in their power to make sure that Steve would go to college. Well Steve went to college but he didn’t enjoy it. After finding his passion in a calligraphy class, Steve dropped out because he felt that college was a waste of money for his situation. Doing this enabled Steve to take classes he enjoyed and to become to innovate man he was.

After he dropped out Steve and some friends worked on creating what we know today as Apple. After a few years this idea turned into a billion dollar corporation. But Steve Jobs wasn’t in it for the money, he was in it for the people and their needs. “he found a way to make things that we didn’t know were possible, simple.” The things he created helped retail benefit. An example if an IPod or a IPad. They are products that can be used for almost anything and just come in one small affordable product. After a disagreement Jobs was fired from Apple. This didn’t make his give up on his visions. Steve started two companies; Pixar and Next. Pixar is one of the greatest animation studios known to man. They are known for their work with Disney and all of their movies. Apple ended up buying Steve’s company “Next”, which meant Steve returned to work.

Steve Jobs died while working for Apple and creating many things we take for granted today. From a management perspective I learned that you can always go further with an idea. Steve did this by just creating more complex things overtime. If it weren’t for him we wouldn’t have, Mac computers, Ipads, IPods, IPhones, and anything else Apple made. Also my childhood wouldn’t have been the same without getting to see all of my favorite Pixar movies. Steve taught everyone that they need to follow their dreams even if that means upsetting other people or what they expect from you. He was a great man that should be a role model for all young eager entrepreneurs.