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| Steve Jobs | |
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 Jobs holding a white iPhone 4 at Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 | |
| Born | Steven Paul Jobs February 24, 1955[1] San Francisco, California, U.S.[1] |
| Died | October 5, 2011 (aged 56) |
| Residence | Palo Alto, California, U.S.[2] |
| Alma mater | Reed College (one year, 1972) |
| Occupation | Chairman, Apple Inc. |
| Net worth |  $8.3 billion (2011)[3] |
| Board member of | The Walt Disney Company,[4] Apple, Inc. |
| Religion | Buddhism[5] |
| Spouse | Laurene Powell Jobs (1991–2011) |
| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | Mona Simpson (sister) |
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| Steve Jobs | |
In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula,[7] and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh.[11][12] After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985,[13][14] Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until 2011. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios.[15] He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1% until its acquisition by The Walt Disney company in 2006.[16] Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7% and a member of Disney's Board of Directors.[17][18][19][20]
His aim to develop products that are both functional and elegant earned him a devoted following.[21]
On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO. In his letter of resignation, Jobs strongly recommended that the Apple executive succession plan be followed and Tim Cook be named as his successor. Per his request, Jobs was appointed chairman of Apple's board of directors.[22][23][24][25] On October 5, 2011 Apple announced that Steve Jobs had died at the age of 56. [26]
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2 comments:
steve jobs is a hero in the world of information technology, he who has changed the world with his work, hopefully someone like him in the future
He certainly improved computing interfaces, but he was also a miser, mean to employees, and bitter.
The man was dying. Instead of being with his family, he kept working.
His character stunk. Denied his daughter for awhile.
Yeah, I have and iPod, but I do not want to raise my kid to be like its inventor.
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