PUTTING A DING IN THE UNIVERSE - Steve Jobs Story.

 On Oct. 5, 2011, Steve Jobs passed away at the age of 56.

 He had just left the CEO post at Apple, the company he co-founded, for the second time. 

Jobs was an entrepreneur through and through, and the story of his rise is the story of Apple as a company, along with some very interesting twists.

• Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1977, introducing first the Apple I and then the Apple II.
• Apple went public in 1980 with Jobs the blazing visionary and Wozniak the shy genius executing his vision.
• Executive John Scully was added in 1983; in 1985, Apple's board of directors ousted the combative Jobs in favor of Scully.
• Away from Apple, Jobs invested in and developed animation producer Pixar and then founded NeXT to create high-end computers; NeXT eventually led him back to Apple.
• Jobs returned to Apple in the late 1990s and spent the years until his death in 2011 revamping the company and he introducing the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, transforming technology and communication in the process.

As an innovator and visionary, Steve Jobs' accomplishments can be held on a pedestal with the likes of Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. The aforementioned names are all highly regarded within technology for transforming consumerism and the accessibility of information.

One of the most famous Jobs quotes is "STAY HUNGRY, STAY FOOLISH," a motto that followed him through life. 

Despite amassing a fortune of over $10 billion, Jobs' focus was on creating great products, not lining his pockets. “My favourite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."

Steve Jobs said that everything we do in life should be meaningful. We should never do anything without thinking just because it seems like the thing we should do. 

Resting on his laurels was something Jobs never did. Moving from project to project, he progressed onto some of his greatest works. If he had sat back and relaxed after creating the Mac and iPod, there would be no iPhone and iPad.

After Steve Jobs passed away on 5 October 2011, his sister  Simpson remarked on her brother’s final words while delivering his eulogy:

"Steve’s final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times.

Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life’s partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them.

Steve’s final words were: OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW."

     

      With wife Laurene.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

Jobs is survived by
 his wife and 4 children