Steve Jobs - His Entrepreneurial Journey
Steve Jobs was an initiative, determined individual dedicated to the satisfaction of his customers and co-workers. These characteristics, in addition to his people skills and ability not only to persuade the audience to buy his product, but to also interact and engage with them, made him one of the most successful of our time.
Steve Jobs took much interest in the field of technology, not only playing with, but designing and programming. Job's endeavored to make it easier for both enthusiasts to enjoy their hobby, but for everyday people to take up the relatively new and unpopular past time. For this very reason, Jobs created Apple on April 1 1976. The following months were spent assembling boards of Apple I computers in the Jobs' garage, and selling them to independent computer dealers in the area. However, Steve Wozniak (Co-Founder of the company) had started work on a much better computer, the Apple II — an expandable, much more powerful system that supported color graphics. Jobs and Wozniak knew deep down it could be hugely successful, and therefore Jobs started to seek venture capital. He eventually convinced former Intel executive turned business king Mike Markkula to invest $250,000 in Apple, in January 1977. Markkula was a big believer in the personal computing revolution, and he said to the young founders that, thanks to the Apple II, their company could be one of the Fortune 500 in less than two years.
After only 4 years of business, Job's net worth had dramatically increased to $200 million. Due to his persistence and belief in himself, Steve Jobs managed to convince a wide range of investors in the company expanding his worth and market. The qualities he possessed were invaluable to his success and found fortune.
Steve Jobs took much interest in the field of technology, not only playing with, but designing and programming. Job's endeavored to make it easier for both enthusiasts to enjoy their hobby, but for everyday people to take up the relatively new and unpopular past time. For this very reason, Jobs created Apple on April 1 1976. The following months were spent assembling boards of Apple I computers in the Jobs' garage, and selling them to independent computer dealers in the area. However, Steve Wozniak (Co-Founder of the company) had started work on a much better computer, the Apple II — an expandable, much more powerful system that supported color graphics. Jobs and Wozniak knew deep down it could be hugely successful, and therefore Jobs started to seek venture capital. He eventually convinced former Intel executive turned business king Mike Markkula to invest $250,000 in Apple, in January 1977. Markkula was a big believer in the personal computing revolution, and he said to the young founders that, thanks to the Apple II, their company could be one of the Fortune 500 in less than two years.
After only 4 years of business, Job's net worth had dramatically increased to $200 million. Due to his persistence and belief in himself, Steve Jobs managed to convince a wide range of investors in the company expanding his worth and market. The qualities he possessed were invaluable to his success and found fortune.