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Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs
Shoulder-high portrait of smiling man in his fifties wearing a black turtle neck shirt with a day-old beard holding a phone facing the viewer in his left hand
Jobs holding a white iPhone 4 at Worldwide Developers Conference 2010
BornSteven Paul Jobs
February 24, 1955(1955-02-24)[1][2]
San Francisco, California, U.S.[1][2]
Died October 5, 2011(2011-10-05) (aged 56)[2]
Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Nationality American
Alma mater Reed College (dropped out)
Occupation Co-founder, Chairman and CEO, Apple Inc., Co-founder and CEO, Pixar, Co-founder and CEO, NeXT Inc.
Years active 1974–2011
Board member of The WaltDisney Company,[3] Apple Inc.
Religion Zen Buddhism
Spouse Laurene Powell
(1991–2011, his death)
Children 4 – Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Reed, Erin, Eve
Relatives Mona Simpson (sister)
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Steven Paul Jobs (/ˈdʒɒbz/; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)[4][5] was an American businessman and inventor widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution.[6][7]He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also co-founded and 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.

In the late 1970s, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak engineered one of the first commercially successful lines of personalcomputers, the Apple II series. Jobs directed its aesthetic design and marketing along with A.C. "Mike" Markkula, Jr. and others. 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 Apple Lisa (engineered by Ken Rothmuller and John Couch) and, one year later, creation of Apple employeeJef Raskin's Macintosh.

After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. NeXT was eventually acquired by Apple in 1996, which brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and provided Apple with the NeXTSTEP codebase, from which the Mac OS Xwas developed."[8] Jobs was named Apple advisor in 1996, interim CEO in 1997, and CEO from 2000 until his resignation. He oversaw the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad and the company's Apple Retail Stores.[9] In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd, which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios.[10] He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as anexecutive producer. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2006,[11] making Jobs Disney's largest individual shareholder at seven percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors.[12][13]

In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreas neuroendocrine tumor. Though it was initially treated, he reported a hormone imbalance,underwent a liver transplant in 2009, and appeared progressively thinner as his health declined.[14] On medical leave for most of 2011, Jobs resigned as Apple CEO in August that year and was elected Chairman of the Board. On October 5, 2011, Jobs died of respiratory arrest related to his metastatic tumor. He continues to receive honors and public recognition for his influence in the technology andmusic industries.
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* 1 Early life and education
* 2 Early career
* 3 Career
o 3.1 Apple Computer
o 3.2 NeXT Computer
o 3.3 Pixar and Disney
o 3.4 Return to Apple
o 3.5 Resignation
* 4 Business life
o 4.1 Wealth
o 4.2 Stock options backdating issue
o 4.3 Management style...