Steve Jobs's legendary life

Steve Jobs is the iconic leader of the personal computer revolution. For nearly three decades, Jobs was undoubtedly the United States' "king of Silicon Valley." From the initial Macintosh to today's iPod, iTunes and iPhone, Steve Jobs's slogan “Anything” has long been recognized in the world.

Jobs was a adopted orphan when he was a child. He had dropped out of college and became a lone man in the business world. He later suffered from cancer. CNBC presented you through Jobs’ personal life and career in the extraordinary life.

1955: Adopted


Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. Jobs grew up in the house on the map. It was in the garage of this house that Jobs created the first Macintosh.

Steve Jobs's biological parents, Simpson, gave birth to Steve Jobs during unmarried study and later married and raised a daughter, Steve Jobs's biological sister. She is a well-known American novelist Mona. Simpson (Mona Simpson).

1972: Dropouts


As we all know, Jobs University chose to drop out of school just one semester. Since then, Jobs has traveled thousands of miles to India to seek spiritual enlightenment. After returning to the United States, he became a bald Buddhist.

During this time, Jobs also tried LSD. In the book “What the Dormouse Said” by The New York Times reporter John Markoff, Citing Jobs’s words, this drug experience is called “one of the most important two or three things in my life”. This picture was taken in 1977 when Jobs founded Apple and he was still practicing Zen Buddhism.

1978: illegitimate daughter


Like his biological parents, Jobs had also been illegitimate. In 1978, Jobs's girlfriend, painter Chrisann Brennan, gave birth to a daughter for him. However, Jobs at the time refused to acknowledge the matter and claimed that he was "infertile." So Brennan raised this daughter alone and even needed to rely on the local welfare system.

However, Jobs later admitted that the daughter of Lisa Brennan-Jobs was on the picture. Lisa graduated from Harvard in 2000 and became a writer.

1981-1982: "The Rock Queen" Joan Baez


In an unauthorized biography of "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs", Steve Jobs, the author Alan Deutschman revealed that Jobs had dated the country female singer known as the "Queen of the People".

Jobs never admitted his relationship with Baez. In another unauthorized biography, "Photo: Steve Jobs," the author also mentioned that Jobs would have married Baez, but given her age, she was not likely to have children, so she lost her life. .

1982: New York Apartments


In 1982, Jobs bought an apartment in New York, located in the San Remo apartment building to the west of Central Park. Among his neighbors, there is a famous movie star, Demi. Demi Moore, world-class director Steven. Steven Spielberg and movie celebrity Steve. Martin (Steve Martin).

There have been reports that Jobs spent several years decorating the North Tower of the apartment, but he himself never stayed. Later he sold the apartment to U2 singer Bono.

1984: The Mac debuts

In January 1984, Apple introduced a Macintosh computer with 128K RAM. With the development of the era, 128K of memory has apparently been unable to meet consumer demand, so Apple soon introduced a Macintosh computer with 512K of RAM.

The Mac is also the world's first personal computer driven using a graphical user interface, which is the basis of all the PC personal computer interfaces we see today.

1985: Acquisition of NeXT


In 1985, Jobs was the CEO of Apple at that time with John. John Sculley left Apple without a match. Steve Jobs later set out to create the NeXT computer company. Although NeXT did not excel in hardware design, its software was a blockbuster in the computer industry. It eventually drove Apple to acquire NeXT in 1997 and asked Jobs back.

The software designed by NeXT eventually evolved into Apple's OS X system running on Mac, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

1991: Love and Marriage


March 18, 1991, Steve. Jobs and Lauren. Laurene Powell held a wedding at the Ahwahnee Hotel in the United States, winning the United States Home Park. The wedding was hosted by an ordinary Zen monk. This photo was taken in November 2005. The Jobs couple had three children after marriage, Reed Paul, Erin Sienna and Eve.

1995: Toy Story


Although Steve Jobs has achieved great success in computers, his true "big action" was a movie in the 1990s - Toy Story. In 1986, Steve Jobs was a famous producer, director George of Star Wars. In the hands of George Lucas, he bought Pixar Animation Studios.

By 1995, "Toy Story" became a large box office, and North America's box office reached $191 million. When Pixar Studios made its initial public offering in September of that year, Jobs invested 60 million U.S. dollars to buy 80% of the shares, and eventually earned more than 600 million U.S. dollars in book profits.

2004: Cancer


In July 2004, Jobs accepted surgery for pancreatic cancer. During Jobs' recovery, Tim Cook, Apple's sales and operations officer, managed the company's business. At the same time, Pixar's president, Ed Catmull, oversaw Apple’s business. After surgery, Jobs returned to Apple after two months.

This picture was taken at the World Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco on June 28, 2004. At the time, Jobs was making a keynote speech.

2008: Business Model


Jobs's enthusiasm for the Beatles culture is well known. When TV news magazine “60 Minutes” asked Steve Jobs about his business model, he replied: “My business model is The Beatles, and they are mutually exclusive and balanced. The team is always bigger than the individual, business. The great achievements we achieved were not accomplished by one person but benefited from the cooperation of the entire team.

2008: Rumors of Death


In August 2008, Bloomberg mistakenly published a 2,500-word obituary to announce the death of Steve Jobs. In a keynote speech in September, Jobs quoted Mark. Twain's famous quote responded to this: "The report about my death is overstated."

It was already the fourth year after Jobs' pancreatic cancer surgery. More than six months later, in April 2009, he had a full liver transplant. In January 2011, Apple officially announced the news of Steve Jobs's sick leave.

2011: Black Men


Over the past decade, Jobs has always appeared in the public eye with the same attire: black turtleneck sweaters, Levi's 501 jeans, and New Balance 991 sports shoes.

This "uniform" has also triggered many speculations on the Internet: He is always in the same suit, so every day can reduce the annoyance of making a decision; or this has become his personal brand; or it is a cold joke: Why Steve. Jobs has been wearing a black turtleneck? Because the suit has too many buttons for him.

2011: Patents


Throughout Jobs's career, he participated in some incredible projects. In fact, Steve Jobs is the principal inventor or co-inventor of more than 230 award-winning patents involving computers, portable devices, user interfaces, speakers, keyboards, power adapters, and elevators.