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Jobs and visited
While chairman, Jobs visited university departments and faculty members to sell Macintosh.
At about this time they were visited by Steve Jobs, who urged them to adapt PostScript to be used as the language for driving laser printers.
In December 1979, Apple Computer's co-founder Steve Jobs visited Xerox PARC, where he was shown the Smalltalk-80 programming environment, networking, and most importantly the WYSIWYG, mouse-driven graphical user interface provided by the Alto.
The next month, in October 1988, Steve Jobs visited Lotus to show them the new NeXT computer.
An episode of Dirty Jobs Down Under with Mike Rowe visited Cooper Pedy and aired September 29, 2012 on Discovery Channel.
Addressing a crowd of nearly 9, 000, President Obama visited the University of Richmond to present the American Jobs Act on September 11, 2011.

Jobs and him
Apple's Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) John Sculley ousted Jobs from his day-to-day role at Apple, replacing him with Jean-Louis Gassée in 1985.
Steve Jobs was quoted as saying that, it was " as big a deal as the PC ", though later sources quoted him as saying when first introduced to the product that its design " sucked ".
Hewlett was impressed with Jobs ' gumption and offered him a summer job.
" A feature in Mad Magazine titled " Some Really Dangerous Jobs for George Plimpton " spotlighted him trying to swim across Lake Erie, strolling through New York's Times Square in the middle of the night, and spending a day with Jerry Lewis.
According to Goldberg, Steve Jobs demanded a demonstration of the Smalltalk System, which she refused to give him.
At a San Francisco computer fair where the Apple II computer is introduced, Gates ( the then-unknown Microsoft CEO ), attempts to introduce himself to Jobs, who snubs him.
" In describing Jobs, Wyle states that " I would call him a perfectionist.
After the film had aired, Jobs contacted Noah Wyle to tell him that while he didn't care for the film, he thought that Wyle had done " a good job " of impersonating him.
Jobs noticed his friend Steve Wozniak — employee of Hewlett-Packard — was capable of producing designs with a small number of chips, and invited him to work on the hardware design with the prospect of splitting the $ 750 wage.
This equated to a bonus, which Jobs kept secret from Wozniak, instead only paying him $ 375.
After unveiling the prototype, Steve Jobs called Schwartz's office and told him that Apple would sue Sun if Sun moved forward to commercialize it.
When he assumed power in 1933, there were still many unemployed workers in Germany, some of whom were given work on public building schemes that Hitler thought would stimulate a sluggish German economy and at the same time provided him with popular propaganda " Hitler Creates Jobs " ( Gr Hitler schafft Arbeit ).
* Steve Jobs – co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple Inc., born to an unmarried graduate student who placed him for adoption with Paul and Clara Jobs.
It also made Steve Jobs Disney's top shareholder with seven percent of outstanding shares, and gave him a new seat on Disney's board of directors.
He was lured out of retirement by Steve Jobs, who was referred to him by Regis McKenna and venture capitalist Don Valentine.
Steve Jobs claimed to have grown up in an Eichler home and stated " that his appreciation for Eichler homes instilled in him a passion for making nicely designed products for the mass market ".
According to roadkill taxidermy artist Stephen Paternite, Dirty Jobs filmed a segment featuring him in 2003, which was ultimately cut by the Discovery Channel as " too gross ".
Jobs, who had been ousted from the company in 1985, returned to become Apple's CEO in 1996 after his company NeXT was bought by Apple Inc., and he brought with him a new corporate philosophy of recognizable products and simple design.

Jobs and convinced
It appears that Steve Jobs was not convinced of his team's abilities, and secretly started up another project just to be sure ; its development was eventually released as WriteNow.
On the July 4, 1997 weekend, Jobs convinced the directors to oust Amelio in a boardroom coup ; Amelio submitted his resignation less than a week later ; and Jobs then became interim CEO on September 16.

Jobs and Markkula
Gates ' and Allen's early work with MITS is juxtaposed against the involvement of Jobs and Wozniak with the Homebrew Computer Club, eventually leading to the development of the Apple I in 1976 with the help of angel investor Mike Markkula ( Jeffrey Nordling ).
Formerly director of manufacturing at National Semiconductor, Scott was persuaded by Mike Markkula to take the CEO position at Apple, as the co-founders — Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak — were both seen as insufficiently experienced for the job at the time.
"— was not interested in funding Apple, but mentioned Jobs ' new company to Markkula.
He helped the new company obtain credit and venture capital, brought in Michael Scott as the first president and CEO, then took the job himself from 1981 to 1983 despite having promised his wife that he would only stay at Apple for four years, and that he would retire by 1984 Markkula served as chairman from 1985 until 1997, when a new board was formed after Jobs returned to the company.
In 1985 Markkula took John Sculley's side in a dispute with Jobs, causing the latter to leave the company, and in 1993 he helped to force Sculley out.
In addition to providing " adult supervision " to the younger Jobs and Wozniak, as a trained engineer Markkula also possessed technical skills.
Jobs eventually met " Mike " Markkula who co-signed a bank loan for US $ 250, 000, and the three formed Apple Computer on April 1, 1976.

Jobs and market
After various companies made offers, Keygrip was purchased by Apple as Steve Jobs wanted a product to compete with Adobe Premiere in the desktop video market.
For example, an online futures market called the Future of IT Jobs in America attempts to answer whether there will be more IT jobs, including software engineers, in 2012 than there were in 2002.
After a basic market update, Jobs announced that Apple would transition to Intel processors and the x86 platform.
He tried to convince Intel management to market the i960 ( then still known as the " P7 ") as a general-purpose processor, both in place of the Intel 80286 and i386 ( which taped-out the same month as the first i960 ), as well as the emerging RISC market for Unix systems, including a pitch to Steve Jobs for use in the NeXT system.
With the return of Jobs, this rebranding also allowed Apple to exploit a legal loophole to terminate third-party manufacturers ' licenses to System 7 and effectively shut down the Macintosh clone market.
After Steve Jobs returned to Apple as the new CEO, he revoked all of the clone producers ' licenses to produce Mac clones except for UMAX, due to their sub-US $ 1000 low-end offerings, a market in which Apple was not strong, and UMAX's stated desire to expand the Macintosh platform's presence in East Asian markets.
Steve Jobs reduced the company's large and confusing product lines immediately after becoming Apple's interim CEO in 1997 ; toward the end of the year, Apple trimmed its line of desktop Macs down to the beige Power Macintosh G3 series, which included the iMac's immediate predecessor, the G3 All-In-One, which featured nearly identical specifications and was sold only to the educational market.
A fashion creative director's main role is to establish what designs should be created, what will appeal to the target market and how the concepts will be applied and distributed in collaboration with fashion designers who are responsible for creating the clothing and fabrics .< ref >" Fashion Director: Inside Jobs.

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