Born Steven Paul Jobs
February 24, 1955
[1]
San Francisco,
California,
USA[1]
Died October 5, 2011 (aged 56)
Palo Alto,
California,
USA
Cause of death Pancreatic cancer
[2]
Alma mater Reed College (one semester in 1972)
Occupation
Chairman,
Apple Inc.
Years active 1974–2011
Net worth
$8.3 billion (2011)
[3]
Board member of
The Walt Disney Company,
[4]Apple, Inc.
Religion
Buddhism[5]
Spouse
Laurene Powell Jobs
(m. 1991–2011; his death)
Children 4
Relatives
Mona Simpson (sister)
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)
[6][7][8] was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder,
[9]chairman, and chief executive officer of
Apple Inc.[10][11] Jobs also previously served as chief executive of
Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of
The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in
Toy Story(1995) as an executive producer.
[12]
In the late 1970s, Jobs — along with Apple co-founder
Steve Wozniak,
Mike Markkula[9] 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.
[13][14] After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985,
[15][16] 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.
