Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs (/?d??bz/; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American inventor and businessman widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer era. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs was co-founder and 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.
Co-founded Apple Computer Inc. in 1977 with Steve Wozniak. Was later ousted and then brought back as interim CEO in 1997. His new reign has been controversial: bringing Apple back to profitability (and visibility), yet disappointing many for discontinuing the Newton MessagePad hand-held device.
Officially dropped the word “interim” from his title at Apple Computer sometime in the autumn of 1999.
brother of Mona Simpson [biological]
When Apple Computer appointed its first Board of Directors, the Board insisted that all employees wear name badges with a number indicating the order in which they were hired. They assigned Steve Wozniak, who did all the engineering of the highly successful Apple II computer, the title Employee No. 1. Steve Jobs was officially Employee No. 2. Jobs protested but the Board refused to change the badge assignments. Jobs offered a compromise: He would be Employee No. 0, since 0 comes before 1 on the mathematical model known as a number line. (Source: “Accidental Empires” by Robert X. Cringely).
CEO of Pixar Animation Studios – the creators of Toy Story (1995), A Bug’s Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), and Finding Nemo (2003) – as well as various shorts, including Oscar-winning Tin Toy (1988), Geri’s Game (1997), and For the Birds (2000).
Purchased the computer graphics division of LucasFilm from George Lucas. This was later renamed Pixar.
Has a daughter, Lisa, from a previous relationship. She is the namesake of Apple’s computer, the Lisa.
Attended Reed College (Portland, Oregon), but dropped out after one semester.
Adopted from infancy by Mountain View, California, couple, Paul and Clara Jobs. He was machinist for a laser manufacturer; she was an accountant.
Ranked #23 in Premiere’s 2003 annual Power 100 List with Pixar partner John Lasseter. They had ranked #31 in 2002.
Graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, in 1972.
July 2004: he had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his pancreas
He was a pescetarian, one whose diet includes fish but no other meat.
Was portrayed by Noah Wyle in Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) (TV).
Ranked #1 on Premiere’s 2004 annual Power 100 List with Pixar co-head John Lasseter. Had ranked #23 in 2003.
Ranked #3 on Premiere’s 2005 Power 50 List with Pixar co-head John Lasseter. They had ranked #1 in 2004.
In Forbes Magazine’s listing of the 400 Richest Americans in 2005, Steve Jobs came in at number 67 with a total worth of $3.3 Billion.
Ranked #1 on Premiere’s 2006 “Power 50″ list with Pixar co-head John Lasseter. They had ranked #3 in 2005 and #1 in 2004.
Invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Executives Branch) in 2005.
Received a liver transplant in April 2009.
Merited a position in Time magazine’s “The 100 Most Influential People in the World” (“Thinkers” category) with an homage contributed by Jeff Koons. [May 10, 2010]
Merited the #2 position in “The Vanity Fair 100″ magazine’s 16th annual ranking of the most influential people of the Information Age. [2010]
Has a child from a relationship he had when he was 23 with a woman whom he didn’t marry. The daughter was named Lisa N. Brennan Jobs born on 17 May 1978.
Jobs gave the commencement address to the graduating class of at Stanford University in the state of California.
Biological son of immigrants to the U.S., Syrian Abdul Fattah Jandali and German-Swiss Joanne Carol Schieble. He was placed for adoption at a very early age, where he was adopted by an Armenian-American couple, Paul and Clara Jobs, who raised him. As a result of his adoption, Jobs was fluent in the Armenian language.
