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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

"Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)^[5][6][7] was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder,^[8] chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc.^[9][10] Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer.^[11]

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 always aspired to position Apple and its products at the forefront of the information technology industry by foreseeing and setting trends, at least in innovation and style. He summed up that self-concept at the end of his keynote speech at the Macworld Conference and Expo in January 2007 by quoting ice hockey legendWayne Gretzky:^[77]

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"

"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]

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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