Steve Jobs , Born February 24, 1955 (1955-02-24) (age 55)
San Francisco, California, Nationality American, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Apple
Other activities Member of the Board of Directors of The Walt Disney Company
Spouse (s) Laurene Powell-Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs is an American computer entrepreneur and born February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California. Steven Jobs is famous for being the founder and current CEO (CEO) of Apple. He is considered one of the pioneers of personal computing for introducing the computer in the home (well before the advent of the IBM PC), then realized the potential of the couple GUI / Mouse Following a visit with a team of their company at Xerox PARC. This idea leads to the marketing of Apple Computer's Macintosh, the first consumer desktop advantage of these innovations. Ousted in 1985 from the company he founded, Steve Jobs created NeXT, and including Pixar Animation Studios, before returning to take the lead from Apple in 1997 and being behind in the 2000s of launch and global success of the iPod, iPhone and iPad. In 2009, he is considered the 43rd American fortune.
The son of an American mother, Joanne Carole Schieble, and a Syrian father, Abdulfattah John Jandali, a political science professor, Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California. It was adopted shortly after birth by Paul and Clara Jobs Jobs Living in Mountain View, California. His biological parents were married a year later and have another child, the author Mona Simpson.
In 1991, Steve Jobs married Laurene Powell youngest of nine, with whom he has three children. It also has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs with Chris-Ann Brennan, a young woman he did not marry .
After graduating from Homestead High School in Cupertino (California) in 1972, Steve Jobs is at the Reed College in Portland, Oregon where he abandoned his studies after one semester, while continuing to take courses in an auditor . So he followed a very good courses in calligraphy, which will be of fundamental importance later [4]. During autumn 1974, he returned to California and began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve Wozniak. He could get a job in the company Atari to program video games with his friend Steve Wozniak, its main purpose being to save money to go on a spiritual retreat in India.
On 1 April 1976, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Ron Wayne created the company Apple.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (nicknamed "the two Steves"), aged 21 years and 26 years, founded Apple. Their first location will be the family garage where Jobs they made their first computer, the Apple I. It goes on sale in 1976 at a price of 666.66 dollars.
The name was chosen by Apple's Steve Jobs, who is a vegetarian [5], Macintosh and the name comes from a variety of apples harvested Jobs in his youth to earn pocket money. An anecdote tells that during a trip to Nepal, he suffered from indigestion causing it to temporarily feed apples. Seeing that they could not agree on a name and a logo for their company, Jobs had the idea to propose as a compromise apple core, something that was part of his daily [Ref. necessary].
In 1980, Apple entered the stock market quickly by Jobs and Wozniak millionaires. In 1982 at the age of 27 years, Steve Jobs is the youngest man to enter the Fortune 400 (ranking of people with the greatest fortune the world), special event before the emergence of Internet start-ups.
In 1983, Jobs hired John Sculley from Pepsi-Cola to lead Apple, saying: "You intend to sell sugared water all your life or you want to change the world with me? "
The same year Apple released Lisa, the first personal computer to have a GUI and mouse, whose patents have been purchased from the company that Xerox did not see the value.
On 24 January 1984, the Macintosh is on the market is the first computer to the general public with a graphical interface controlled by mouse. The Macintosh project was launched by an engineer at Apple, Jef Raskin. It was to design a computer of any size, very affordable, limited to a few tasks and extreme ease of use. Steve Jobs, perceiving the potential of this project, is then captured, questioning some of its objectives, including that of a budget price. Courses calligraphy Jobs came back to introduce fonts flush variable, an innovation at the time, ensuring an instant success with the Macintosh in the world of graphic arts and printing, but also business communication .
In 1985, after an internal struggle for power at Apple, Steve Jobs is removed from office and ousted by John Sculley of Apple. After a moment of doubt, the opportunity to participate in founding a new company, NeXT Computers, and bought Pixar Animation Studios (originally known as the Graphics Group). Although NeXT has no commercial success, there will create high-end computers to design bold and revolutionary technologies [Ref. necessary]: a simple graphical interface extending the capabilities of the Macintosh, a high resolution graphical grayscale display, a magneto-optical disk 256 MB, Ethernet connectivity, a preemptive multitasking system, and is fully developed in Objective C language object derived from the C language The machine uses the same processor as the Macintosh: a 32-bit Motorola 68030 processor and 68040. A high quality laser printer accompanied .
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In late 1996, Apple's in trouble, signs a partnership with Microsoft. This then gives $ 150 million to Apple in search of a new operating system for several months, bought NeXT for $ 400 million.
In 1997, Steve Jobs, who was six months since a function of special adviser to the president of Apple Gil Amelio, causing the latter's departure and a reshuffle of the board of directors of the company. He was appointed interim CEO in place of Gil Amelio.
Since then, he receives a salary of one dollar as compensation for his work as head of Apple [6]. Its revenues come mainly because of stock options the company he owns, he also enjoys the benefits of its function [.
At the MacWorld 2000, Steve Jobs announced as CEO as of right, and appoints this position iCEO [ref. desired]. Mac OS X is the result of a cross between Mac OS and NextStep.
Pixar .
In 1986, Steve Jobs, along with two engineers at Lucasfilm, Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith, founded the animation studio Pixar. This company is created from the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, which Jobs bought for $ 10 million to George Lucas. Ten years later, Pixar is a great success with the movie Toy Story, the first animated film produced entirely by computer, which garnered more than $ 360 million of revenue in theaters. Further success followed with 1001 Feet (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Cars (2006), Ratatouille (2007), WALL-E (2008), Up (2009) and Toy Story 3 (2010) by the famous studio.
In January 2006, Disney bought Pixar group for 7.4 billion stock swap. Steve Jobs becomes the first director of the group and individual shareholder of Disney with more than 6% of the capital to the nephew of Walt Disney, Roy E. Disney and former CEO Michael Eisner.
Disease .
In July 2004, Steve Jobs has surgery to remove a cancerous pancreas. More specifically, it suffers from a relatively rare tumor, easier to handle, calling themselves "neuroendocrine tumor of the islets of Langerhans. This intervention will require no further treatment such as radiotherapy or chemotherapy. During his absence, Timothy D. Cook, director of sales and global operations of Apple, will take control of the company.
He can not attend the Apple Expo in September 2004 and its vice-president Phil Schiller, narrowly avoiding the cancellation of the conference. So Steve Jobs did not view his Keynote lecture he gives specific opportunities and in which he gives the company's financial results, followed by the presentation of news, usually ending with a surprise "One more thing ..." ("One more thing ...").
It appears at WWDC 2006 in San Francisco, emaciated and assisted by three persons, to hold the Keynote.
On August 27, 2008, news agency Bloomberg mistakenly publishes a lengthy obituary of Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple. The 17-page section is removed 30 seconds after its publication .
At the Special Event of October 14, 2008 Steve Jobs gives his end of conference blood pressure, to reassure those who doubt his health.
In January 2009, Steve Jobs, through a statement posted on the Internet, information about his health, saying that her weight loss is due both to an illness related to a "hormonal imbalance" and requiring treatment a scheme [.
On 14 January 2009, he reported by e-mail destined for Apple employees that it takes a sick leave until June 2009, saying that his health problems are more complex than previously thought initially [.On June 20, 2009, The Wall Street Journal reveals that Steve Jobs has undergone a liver transplant two months before .
On September 9, 2009, Steve Jobs addresses the transplant liver in public at a Special Event. He said he had been transplanted from a young man of twenty years died in a car accident. He thanked him for his generosity after death, and urged the public to register as organ donors.
On January 17, 2011, Steve Jobs indicated by an internal memo that it will take a leave for health reasons. Leave no end date yet. He mentions in this post, he remains the CEO of Apple, charging Tim Cook tasks of everyday life. .
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Aggressive and demanding personality of Steve Jobs has been heavily discussed. Fortune magazine (which was "sacred" Jobs "CEO of the Decade" in November 2009) [12] wrote that "it is considered the most egotistical of Silicon Valley" [13]. Comments about his temperament and style can be found in The Little Kingdom, a book by Michael Moritz, one of the few authorized biographies of Steve Jobs. One can cite as biographies prohibited Steve Jobs: The Journey Is the Reward, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs or iCon: Steve Jobs. In iCon: Steve Jobs, the authors point out that Paul Jobs, who adopted Steve, is also known for being aggressive.
Steve Jobs Apple has always wanted to be a major corporation in information technology and industry, and this provision and setting market trends, at least in terms of innovation and style. He sums up his idea at the end of the Macworld Conference & Expo in January 2007 citing the former hockey player Wayne Gretzky .
"It's an old Wayne Gretzky quote I love:" I skate to where the puck will be, not where it was. " And we've always tried to do that at Apple. From the very beginning. And we always will. "
Floyd Norman said that Pixar, Steve Jobs was an "adult individual, and has never interfered with the work of filmmakers. .
