Steve Jobs
The genius that designed the future.
Jobs met Stephen Wozniak when he was still a student. The two shared a love about electronics and began experimenting with circuits and several other electronics in Steve's garage. This garage would become later on the birthplace of Apple.
Wozniak (often reffered to as just Woz) had a job at HP as an engineer. At his free time, him and Jobs would participate in the Homebrew Computer Club, a gathering of local computer-freaks, first established by Gordon French and Fred Moore. At the club's first gathering, Woz had an idea about replacing terminals connected to a mainframe with a standalone computer setup, with a keyboard and everything you would need. A few months later, he had completed building his first computer. Jobs was fascinated watching the computer work.
Steve decided to help Woz create a company to sell the computer together, And that's when Apple was founded.
As the new computer was , Apple II was finally made, Apple really needed someone that would know a few things about marketing. Thankfully, Mike Markkula came in. He really knew a lot about marketing, and began teaching the two that were excited as never before.
After a few years, Jobs and his team would make the first computer Apple computer with Graphical User Interface (GUI), the Macintosh. The Macintosh became known for its design and simplicity. Jobs was so excited with the machine that he believed it would change the whole computer industry.. But after its release, something unexpected would happen.
The new CEO of Apple in 1983, John Sculley had basically a relationship of love and hate with Steve. But as time was flying by, hate was overtaking the love in their relationship. They had intense fights over meaningless things. Until Sculley said something that would end it all: "It's either me or you."
Unsettling for Jobs was the fact that most of the company was on the side of Sculley. John went on with a new plan on the company, and Jobs was only briefly mentioned in that plan. And that meant one thing. Yes, Jobs was thrown out of his own company.