Steve Jobs
February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011
American entrepreneur who co-founded Apple and led it through the Macintosh, iPod and iPhone, which shaped personal computing and the smartphone era.
Biography
Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955 and adopted as a baby. In 1976 he founded Apple with Steve Wozniak; the Apple II became one of the first successful personal computers, and the Macintosh (1984) brought the graphical user interface to a mass market.
He was forced out of Apple in 1985, founded the computer company NeXT, and bought the animation studio that became Pixar. Apple bought NeXT in 1997, and Jobs returned to lead the company.
Back at Apple he launched the iMac, the iPod and the iTunes Store, the iPhone (2007) and the iPad (2010), making Apple one of the world's most valuable companies. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2011.
Affiliations
Education
- Jan 1, 1972 – Jan 1, 1974 Reed College
- De Anza College
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