Often peoples from different field prove that the certificates or bookish knowledge is not the thing but it is all about your talent, dedication and willingness that mattered. Of-course bit of luck with opportunities together makes the unbelievable things that can happen. These two men, both are rich & famous, having so many similarities yet they are very contrasting when you look upon them as a person. Writing about two greats, the Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs the Apple co-founder.
Strange both were born in 1955 and both of them were college dropouts. Bill Gates was dropout from Harvard and Steve Jobs from Reeds College. Gates is mostly devoted to the software while Jobs on both Software as well as Hardware.
Set aside the bit controversies regarding Microsoft Company, the bullying attitude, its monopoly strategy and the legal hassle with Sun Microsystems, personally you will not find a thing against its former CEO. I considered him as most lovable and the respectable CEO ever lived on this earth. A gem of a person and a genius, very rare combination, always preferred to live pole apart from all sorts of controversies. Steve Jobs may not inherited same human quality as Gates and in philanthropic issues he is never come closure to his counterpart but I am not here to judge him as a person, I salute the man and his luminosity.
Steve Jobs
Jobs was born in San Francisco and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, Jobs' biological parents is Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian and Joanne Simpson and having a biological sister, the novelist Mona Simpson. After high school, he enrolled in Reeds College in Portland. Although he dropped out within short period. After dropping out from the college he continued to attend some audition classes includes on Calligraphy. During this time, he stay over his friend place and even slept on floor, earning pocket money by returning Coke bottles and often got free meals at Hare Krishna Temples. Jobs turned to Buddhism while touring India.
In 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded Apple. Later he designed and developed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. Steve Jobs appointed John Sculley of Pepsi-Cola to serve as Apple's CEO. Some of his employees from Apple had never like his way and found him as an erratic and temperamental manager. Sales of Apple slump at the end of 1984 and thereafter at the end of May 1985, due to internal power struggle,Sculley relieved Jobs of his duties as head of the Macintosh.
Jobs founded another computer company, NeXT Computer and subsequently bought The Graphics Group or Pixar from Lucasfilm's computer. In 1996, Apple bought NeXT and Jobs back to the company he co-founded and became Apple's CEO.
In recent years, Apple introduced some innovative technologies like iPod, iTunes digital software and of-course iPhone.
Jobs married Laurene Powell, couple has a son, Reed Paul Jobs and two other children. Jobs also have a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan.
In mid-2004, Jobs announced to his employees that he had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his pancreas. In April 2009, Jobs underwent a liver transplant and due to this, almost one and a half years he was on leave for. At present, once again he had been granted a medical leave of absence due to health problem.
If go by the recent news then the doctors gave him only six weeks, this news he neither acknowledged nor denied. Hope he will back with a bang to unveil those wonderful gadgets with his trademark style.
!!!Mr. Jobs, looking forward to your new innovation and gadgets, obviously only on your finger tips.!!!