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| Steve Jobs | |
|---|---|
 Jobs holding a white iPhone 4 at Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 | |
| Born | Steven Paul Jobs February 24, 1955[1] San Francisco, California, U.S.[1] |
| Died | October 5, 2011 (aged 56) |
| Cause of death | Pancreatic cancer |
| Alma mater | Reed College (one semester in 1972) |
| Occupation | Chairman, Apple Inc. |
| Years active | 1974–2011 |
| Net worth |  $8.3 billion (2011)[2] |
| Board member of | The Walt Disney Company,[3]Apple, Inc. |
| Religion | Buddhism[4] |
| Spouse | Laurene Powell Jobs (m. 1991–2011; his death) |
| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | Mona Simpson (sister) |
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| Steve Jobs | |
In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula[8] and others designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh.[12][13] After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985,[14][15] Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until 2011.
In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off asPixar Animation Studios.[16] He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney company in 2006.[17] Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7 percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors.[18][19] On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO.
On October 5, 2011, Apple announced that Jobs had died at age 56 due to pancreatic cancer.[20][21][22][23]"
Syria, Germany, Armenia...
"Jobs was born in San Francisco[1] and was adopted by the Armenian family of Paul and Clara Jobs (née Hagopian)[24] of Mountain View, California.[5] Paul and Clara later adopted a daughter, Patti. Jobs' biological parents – Abdulfattah John Jandali, a Syrian Muslim immigrant to the U.S from Homs,[25][26] who later became a political science professor,[27] and Joanne Schieble (later Simpson), an American graduate student[28] of German ancestry[29] who went on to become a speech language pathologist[30] – eventually married. The marriage produced Jobs' biological sister, novelist Mona Simpson.[31] Jandali claims that he didn't want to put Jobs up for adoption but that Simpson's parents did not approve of her marrying a Syrian. Jandali was estranged from Jobs and never contacted him.""Jobs was also a fan of The Beatles. He referred to them on multiple occasions at Keynotes and also was interviewed on a showing of a Paul McCartney concert. When asked about his business model on 60 Minutes, he replied:[88]There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will.—Steve Jobs"
My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people."
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