CEO Awards
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A Special CEO Honor
CEO Profile
Steve Jobs - Cofounder and CEO of Apple Inc
Company Profile
Industry: Personal Computers
Employees: 34,300
Revenues: $57B
Market Cap: $236.4B
CEO Awards - A Special CEO Honor
The Inventor CEO
A visionary, charismatic, and creative CEO who proved all his
past enemies wrong. His vision and pioneering innovations
transformed the way we use computers and phones and changed the
industry forever.
He gave the world, the Macintosh GUI, Toy Story, iPod,
iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air and iTunes. With his return to Apple, he
turned Apple around to become one of the best performing and
most valuable companies on Wall Street. Jobs is listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor in over
230 patents
He earned a salary of $1 per year since he returned to Apple as the
CEO in 1997. During that time, he also did not sell a
single share of Apple stock even though his holdings of Apple are
estimated to be over $1.1 billion (5.5 million shares). It is
believed that Steve Jobs accounts for $20 billion or more of Apple's
market value.
CEO Bio
Steve Jobs is the co-founder and
CEO of Apple Inc. Jobs previously served as
the CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. He became a member of
the board of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the
acquisition of Pixar by Disney.
In the late 1970s, Jobs and his team designed, developed and
marketed one of the first commercial lines of personal computers,
the Apple II series. After
losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs
left Apple and founded NeXT, a high-end computer. Apple's subsequent
1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded. In 1986,
Jobs acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm
Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained
CEO until its acquisition by the Walt
Disney company in 2006. Jobs is also a member of Disney's Board of
Directors and owns approximately 138 million shares of Walt Disney (DIS)
stock that he received from the Pixar Animation Studios sale.
Since Jobs is one of the most
famous and most covered CEOs we chose to focus less on his bio
and share more of his insights with our readers.
CEO Challenge
- Could history repeat itself? In the early years of Apple,
the company had a superior graphical operating system (OS).
Steve Jobs lost the OS market to Microsoft by insisting on
selling a closed system. On the other hand, Microsoft partnered
with PC manufacturers and dominated the global OS market even
when it had an inferior OS at that time. Today, Apple's iPhone
faces the same challenge from Google's Android. Will Steve Jobs
stick to the old strategy or will he preempt Google and protect
his smart phones market dominance?
CEO Insights
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was
the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was
that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they
would continue to open their wallets. - Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an
environment where excellence is expected. - Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. - Steve
Jobs, CEO of Apple
Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry
making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by
innovation. - Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to
admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other
innovations. - Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into
a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot
of disciplines. - Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's
life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results
of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what
you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. - Steve
Jobs, CEO of Apple
Almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all
fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in
the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering
that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap
of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There
is no reason not to follow your heart. - Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple
I was lucky! I found what I love to do early
in life. - Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple
We do not say anything about future products.
We work on them in secret, then we announce them. - Steve
Jobs, CEO of Apple
We're the last guys left in this industry who
can do it, and that's what we're about. - Steve Jobs, CEO of
Apple
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