Steven Paul Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor.
Born: 24 February 1955, San Francisco, California, United States
Died: 5 October 2011, Palo Alto, California, United States
Net worth: US$7 billion (September 2011)
Spouse: Laurene Powell (m. 1991–2011)
Education: Reed College (1972–1974), Homestead High School (1968–1972), De Anza College, Cupertino Junior Highschool, Monta Loma Elementary .
Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, and put up for adoption. He was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out that same year, and traveled through India in 1974 seeking enlightenment and studying Zen Buddhism. His declassified FBI report states that he used marijuana and LSD while he was in college, and once told a reporter that taking LSD was "one of the two or three most important things" he had done in his life.
Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. Together the duo gained fame and wealth a year later with the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers. Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto in 1979, which was mouse-driven and had a graphical user interface (GUI). This led to the development of the unsuccessful Apple Lisa in 1983, followed by the breakthrough Macintosh in 1984, the first mass-produced computer with a GUI. The Macintosh introduced the desktop publishing industry in 1985 with the addition of the Apple LaserWriter, the first laser printer to feature vector graphics. Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985 after a long power struggle with the company's board and its then-CEO John Sculley. That same year, Jobs took a few of Apple's members with him to found NeXT, a computer platform development company that specialized in computers for higher-education and business markets. In addition, he helped to develop the visual effects industry when he funded the computer graphics division of George Lucas's Lucasfilm in 1986. The new company was Pixar, which produced the first 3D computer animated feature film Toy Story (1995).
Apple acquired NeXT in 1997, and Jobs became CEO of his former company within a few months. He was largely responsible for helping revive Apple, which had been on the verge of bankruptcy. He worked closely with designer Jony Ive to develop a line of products that had larger cultural ramifications, beginning in 1997 with the "Think different" advertising campaign and leading to the iMac, iTunes, iTunes Store, Apple Store, iPod, iPhone, App Store, and the iPad. In 2001, the original Mac OS was replaced with a completely new Mac OS X, based on NeXT's NeXTSTEP platform, giving the OS a modern Unix-based foundation for the first time. Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003. He died of respiratory arrest related to the tumor at age 56 on October 5, 2011.
Honors and awards
• 1985: National Medal of Technology (with Steve Wozniak), awarded by US President Ronald Reagan
• 1987: Jefferson Award for Public Service
• 1989: Entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc. magazine
• 1991: Howard Vollum Award from Reed College
• 2007: Named the most powerful person in business by Fortune magazine
• 2007: Inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts
• 2012: Grammy Trustees Award, an award for those who have influenced the music industry in areas unrelated to performance
• 2012: Posthumously honored with an Edison Achievement Award for his commitment to innovation throughout his career.
• 2013: Posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend
• 2017: Steve Jobs Theatre opens at Apple Park.
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