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Steve Jobs

1955 – 2011

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Wikipedia Summary

Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board of directors fired him in 1985, he founded NeXT the same year and purchased Pixar in 1986, becoming its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007. Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 as CEO, where he was closely involved with the creation and promotion of many of the company's most influential products until his resignation in 2011.

Biographical & Professional Details

Date of birth
February 24, 1955
San Francisco
Date of death
October 5, 2011
Palo Alto
Citizenship

United States

Occupations & fields
entrepreneurinventordesignercomputer scientistexecutive producerfilm producer
Awards & honours
National Medal of Technology and InnovationGrammy Trustees AwardCalifornia Hall of FameNational Inventors Hall of FameDisney LegendsFinancial Times Person of the Year
Notable works
Apple IApple IIApple LisaNeXT ComputeriMaciPod
Field and occupation
spoluzakladateľ Apple Inc.
Given name:
Стівен, Steven, Пауль, Paul
Also known as
Джобс · Стівен Джобс · Джобс Стів · Steven Paul Jobs · Steven Jobs · Abdul Lateef Jandali · Steven P. Jobs · T. Lateef
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