Name: Steven Paul Jobs
Born: February 24, 1955 at San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died : October 5, 2011 at Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Occupation: Chairman, Apple Inc.
Years active: 1974–2011
Net worth: $8.3 billion (2011)
Board member of The Walt Disney Company, Apple, Inc.
Religion: Buddhism
Spouse: Laurene Powell Jobs
Children: 4
Relatives: Mona Simpson (sister)
Born: February 24, 1955 at San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died : October 5, 2011 at Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Occupation: Chairman, Apple Inc.
Years active: 1974–2011
Net worth: $8.3 billion (2011)
Board member of The Walt Disney Company, Apple, Inc.
Religion: Buddhism
Spouse: Laurene Powell Jobs
Children: 4
Relatives: Mona Simpson (sister)
Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs was an American
computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder,chairman, and
chief executive officer of Apple Inc. 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.
In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple
co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, 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. After losing a power struggle with the board
of directors in 1985, 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. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent
until its acquisition by The Walt Disney company in 2006. Consequently
Jobs became Disney’s largest individual shareholder at 7 percent and a
member of Disney’s Board of Directors.
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.
On October 5, 2011, Apple announced that Jobs had died. He was 56 years
old.
