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STEVE JOBS

By Artem SHINKARUK Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 October 5, 2011)[was an American entrepreneur and inventor, best known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields, transforming "one industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies..." Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios.

In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak formed their own business, which they named "Apple Computer Company" in remembrance of a happy October 5, 2011 (aged 56) Died Palo Alto California, U.S. summer Jobs had spent picking apples. At first they started off selling circuit boards. While Cause of Metastatic Insulinoma death Jobs was a persuasive and charismatic director American Nationality for Apple, some of his employees from that time described him as an erratic and temperamental manager. Jobs kept meetings running past midnight, sent out lengthy faxes, then called new meetings at 7:00 am.
Born

Steven Paul Jobs February 24, 1955 San Francisco, California, U.S

Apple Inc.

NeXT Computer
After leaving Apple, Jobs founded NeXT Computer in 1985, with $7 million. A year later, Jobs was running out of money and with no product on the horizon, he appealed for venture capital. Eventually, he attracted the attention of billionaire Ross Perot who invested heavily in the company. After NeXT was acquired by Apple Inc. in 1997, WebObjects was used to build and

run the Apple Store, Mobile Me services, and the iTunes Store.

Pixar and Disney


In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for the price of $10 million, $5 million of which was given to the company as capital. Upon Jobs's death his shares in Disney were transferred to the Steven P. Jobs Trust led by Laurene Jobs.

Apple products
1) iMac (Apple iMac was introduced in 1998 and its innovative design was directly the result of Jobs's return to Apple.)

2) iPod (The first generation of iPod was released October 23, 2001. Apple released the hard drive-based iPod classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, video-capable iPod Nano, screenless iPod Shuffle in the following years.)

3) iPhone (Apple began work on the first iPhone in 2005 and the first iPhone was released on June 29, 2007.) Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.

Apple INC.

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