BIography of Steve Jobs (Rising Action/Climax) 1976~1997

  • Apple Computer Inc.

    Apple Computer Inc. is officially incorporated by Steve Jobs, along Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne
  • Assemble of Apple 1

    Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak starts to assemble Appl 1 computer in Jobses's garage
  • Apple 1

    Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak show there Apple 1 to Personal Computing Festival in Atlantic City
  • Apple II

    Apple succeeds by showing the prototype of Apple II at the West Coast Computer Fair
  • Daughter Lisa

    Jobs refuse to acknoloedge that he is the father of Lisa
  • Sales of Apple II

    Sales of Apple II skyrocket after the software Viscalc is introduced
  • Apple III

    Apple launches the Apple IIi, which is somewhat disasterous in terms of sales
  • Apple goes public

    This allows Steve Jobs' net worth of millions of dollar to about 200 million dollars.
  • Steve Jobs takes over the Macintosh project

  • IBM PC

    Apple's worst rival, IBM launches the IBM PC
  • Launch of the LISA computer

    At first, Lisa had a great success, however, as the time went on, it failed.
  • PepsiCo CEO John Sculley becomes the Apple's CEO

    Steve Jobs loses power, due to the disagreement between the employees
  • Steve Jobs is introduced by Alan Kay to the Pixar team

  • Steve job's resignation

    Steve Jobs resigns from Apple and starts NeXt with 5 other employees
  • Steve's mother Clara dies

    Later, he also discovers his biological mother Joanne and his sister.
  • Investment of NeXT

    Ross Perot invest 20 million in NeXt, which allows them to release the product
  • IBM and NeXT

    NeXT and IBM form a partnership to have NeXT run on IBM computers
  • Introduce of NeXT Cube

    Steve Jobs introuces the NeXT Cube in San Fransisco
  • Pull back

    Ross Perot leaves since NeXt is not paying off
  • NeXT's decline

    NeXT COO Peter Van Cuylenburg betrays Steve Jobs by trying to sell the company to SUn.
  • Continueing Decline

    Steve Jobs fires 300 employees, since the hardware operations fails.
  • Steve Jobs's father, Paul Jobs, dies

  • Pixar, the new opening

    Steve Jobs becomes the President & CEO of Pixar Animation Studios