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INTRODUCTION
Born Steven Paul JobsFebruary 24, 1955 San Francisco,
California, U.S
Died October 5, 2011 (aged 56)
Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Cause of death Metastatic Insulinoma
Occupation Co-founder, Chairman and CEO,
Apple Inc.
Co-founder and CEO,
Pixar
Founder and CEO,
NeXT Inc.
Board
member of
The Walt Disney Company Apple Inc.
Religion Zen Buddhism (previously Lutheran)
Spouse(s) Laurene Powell
(19912011, his death)
Children Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Reed Jobs
Erin Jobs
Eve Jobs
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was an American entrepreneur and inventor, best known as the co-
founder, chairman, and CEO ofApple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic
pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer
and consumer electronics fields, transforming "one industry after another, from computers and
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smart phones to music and movies..." Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar
Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors ofThe Walt Disney Company in
2006, when Disney acquired Pixar. Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential
ofXerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple
Lisa and, one year later, the Macintosh. He also played a role in introducing the LaserWriter, one of
the first widely available laser printers, to the market.
CHILDHOOD
Steve Jobs was born on February 24 1955, in Los Altos California. During his high school years, Jobs
worked summers at Hewlitt-Packard, it was there that he first met his future business partner Steve
Wozniak.He studied as an undergraduate: physics, literature, and poetry, at Reed College, Oregon, an
interesting combination of subjects. Steve Jobs formally only attended only one semester at Reed
College, however, he remained at Reed crashing on friend's sofas and auditing courses including a
calligraphy class, which he attributes as being the reason Apple computers had such elegant
typefaces.
CAREER
Atari:After leaving Orefon in 1974 and returning to California, Steve Jobs started working for Atari,an early pioneer manufacturer of personal computers. Jobs' close personal friend Steve Wozniak
was also working for Atari and the future founders of Apple teamed together to design games for
Atari computers.
Hacking: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniakalso proved their chops as hackers, and designed a
telephone blue box. A blue box was an electronic device that simulated a telephone operator'sdialing console and provided the user with free phone calls. Steve Jobs spent plenty of time at
Wozniak's Homebrew Computer Club, a haven for computer geeks and a source of invaluable
information about the field of personal computers.
Out of Mom and Pop's Garage: Jobs and Wozniak had learned enough to try their hand at
building personal computers. Using Steve Job's family garage as a base of operation, the team
produced fifty fully assembled computers that were sold to a local Mountain View electronics store
called the Byte Shop. The sale encouraged the pair to found the Apple Corporation on April 1, 1979.
Apple Corporation: The Apple Corporation was named after Steve Job's favorite fruit. TheApple logo was a representation of the fruit with a bite taken out of it. The bite represented a play
on words - bite and byte.
During the early 80's, Steve Jobs controlled the business side of the Apple Corporation and Steve
Wozniak, the design side. However, in 1984 a power struggle with the board of directors caused
Steve Jobs to leave Apple.
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NeXT: After things at Apple got a little rotten, Steve Jobs founded NeXT, a high-end computercompany. Ironically Apple boughtNeXT in 1996, and Steve Jobs returned to Apple to serve once
more as its CEO from 1997 until his recentretirementin 2011.
The NeXT was an amazing workstation computer that sold poorly. The world's first web browser
was created on a NeXT, and the technology in NeXT software was transferred to the Macintosh andthe iPhone.
Disney Pixar: In 1986, Steve Jobs bought "The Graphics Group" from Lucas films computergraphics division for ten million dollars. The company was later renamed Pixar. At first Jobs
intended that Pixar become a high-end graphic hardware developer, but that goal was not well
achieved, and Pixar moved on to do what it does best - make animated films. Steve Jobs negotiated
Pixar and Disney to collaborate on a number of animated films including Toy Story. In 2006, Disney
bought Pixar from Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs and Apple Begin World Domination:
When Jobs came on board in 1996, Apple was still very much a niche computer platform. Windows-
based PCs were owned by the vast majority of consumers, with the higher-priced Apple computers
mainly being used by the creative industries, including advertising, design and motion pictures.
However, that all changed when the iPod came along in November of 2001. Out of nowhere, Apple
was suddenly on everyone's lips. The idea that thousands of songs could be stored digitally on one
small device much smaller than any Walkman or CD player was mind-blowing. Steve Jobs had
spearheaded a product that literally changed the way music was played and shared.
Within a few years, Apple was the technology that everyone wanted to own. And then came the
iPhone in 2007, which took Apple from a major player to the company everyone was trying to
emulate. Overnight, the iPhone reinvented cell phone technology, and it was yet another crushing
victory for Steve Jobs. His company, Apple, was the brand leader and the one leading the field.
In 2010, after many variations of the iPhone, the iPad was launched to an initially Luke-warm
reception. People didn't see the need for it, but Steve Jobs knew it was going to have a big impact.
And it did. By March of 2011, over 15 million iPads were on the market.
Steve jobs lose his fight with cancer:
In actuality, Jobs had announced his condition (pancreatic cancer) to his staff in mid 2004. Between
2003 and his death in August 2011, Jobs underwent many procedures and therapies to try and beat
the cancer, but it was too aggressive. He stepped down as CEO of Apple on August 24 th, 2011, and
died just a few weeks later on September 11th (the 10th anniversary of the attack on the Twin
Towers).
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