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Date of Birth

24 February 1955, San Francisco, California, USA

Birth Name

Steven Paul Jobs

Height

6' 2" (1.88 m)

Spouse

Laurene Powell

(18 March 1991 - present) 3 children

Trade Mark

Black turtleneck sweatshirt and blue jeans - he owns over a hundred.

Trivia

Co-founded Apple Computer Inc. in 1977 with Steve Wozniak. Was later ousted and then brought back as interim CEO in 1997. His new reign has been controversial: bringing Apple back to profitability (and visibility), yet disappointing many for discontinuing the Newton MessagePad hand-held device.

Officially dropped the word "interim" from his title at Apple Computer sometime in the autumn of 1999.

brother of Mona Simpson [biological]

When Apple Computer appointed its first Board of Directors, the Board insisted that all employees wear name badges with a number indicating the order in which they were hired. They assigned Steve Wozniak, who did all the engineering of the highly successful Apple II computer, the title Employee No. 1. Steve Jobs was officially Employee No. 2. Jobs protested but the Board refused to change the badge assignments. Jobs offered a compromise: He would be Employee No. 0, since 0 comes before 1 on the mathematical model known as a number line. (Source: "Accidental Empires" by Robert X. Cringely)

CEO of Pixar Animation Studios - the creators of Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), and Finding Nemo (2003) - as well as various shorts, including Oscar-winning Tin Toy (1988), Geri's Game (1997), and For the Birds (2000).

Purchased the computer graphics division of LucasFilm from George Lucas. This was later renamed Pixar.

Has a daughter, Lisa, from a previous relationship. She is the namesake of Apple's computer, the Lisa.

Attended Reed College (Portland, Oregon), but dropped out after one semester.

Adopted from infancy by Mountain View, California, couple, Paul and Clara Jobs. He was machinist for a laser manufacturer; she was an accountant.

Ranked #23 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List with Pixar partner John Lasseter. They had ranked #31 in 2002.

Graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California in 1972.

July 2004: he had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his pancreas

Both he and his wife are strict vegans, eating no animal products whatsoever.

Was portrayed by Noah Wyle in Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) (TV).

Ranked #1 on Premiere's 2004 annual Power 100 List with Pixar co-head John Lasseter. Had ranked #23 in 2003.

Ranked #3 on Premiere's 2005 Power 50 List with Pixar co-head John Lasseter. They had ranked #1 in 2004.

In Forbes Magazine's listing of the 400 Richest Americans in 2005, Steve Jobs came in at number 67 with a total worth of $3.3 Billion.

Ranked #1 on Premiere's 2006 "Power 50" list with Pixar co-head John Lasseter. They had ranked #3 in 2005 and #1 in 2004.

Invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Executives Branch) in 2005.

Received a liver transplant in April, 2009.

Where Are They Now

(1986) CEO of Pixar Animation Studios

(1997) CEO of Apple Computer Inc.

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