“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”
Steven Paul Jobs, the man behind personal computers. It was Steve who visualizes the way people wants to compute in 21st century. He made the computers available to the common man with the introduction of Macintosh in 1984. Then, begins the era of Graphical User Interface (GUI) in Personal Computing.
In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari. Several months later he left Atari to find spiritual enlightenment in India, traveling the continent and experimenting with psychedelic drugs. In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computers. The duo started in the Jobs family garage, and funded their entrepreneurial venture after Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak sold his beloved scientific calculator. Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry by democratizing the technology and making the machines smaller, cheaper, intuitive, and accessible to everyday consumers.
While Jobs was a persuasive and charismatic director for Apple, some of his employees from that time had described him as an erratic and temperamental manager. At the end of May 1985 – following an internal power struggle and an announcement of significant layoffs – Sculley relieved Jobs of his duties as head of the Macintosh division. He later claimed that being fired from Apple what the best thing that could happen to him;
“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
Around the same time, Jobs founded another computer company, NeXT Computer. The NeXTcube was described by Jobs as an "interpersonal" computer, which he believed was the next step after "personal” computing. There comes the World Wide Web into the picture.
During the 90’s Jobs bought the Pixar studios and compete with the Disney. And under his guidance Pixar evolved as a renowned brand in animation industry. In the absence of Steve, apple computers had seen many ups and downs. In 1997, Jobs came back to Apple and with it enters into partnership with the software giant Microsoft and Apple got its previous glory back in market.
In August 2011, at the age of 56, Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, but remained at the company as chairman of the company's board. The contribution that the 21 years old Steve Jobs had made to this world will undoubtedly make him the “Person of Millennium”.About the writer- Alisha Mishra is a B-Tech graduate in Computer Science & Engineering perusing research on Operating Systems.
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