Steve Jobs Jobs holding a white iPhone 4 at Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 Born Steven Paul Jobs February 24, 1955 (1955-02-24) (age 56)1 San Francisco, California, U.S.1 Residence Palo Alto, California, U.S.2 Nationality American Alma mater Reed College (dropped out in 1972) Occupation Chairman and CEO, Apple Inc.3 Salary $14567 Net worth $8.3 billion (2011)8 Board member of The Walt Disney Company9 Religion Buddhism10 Spouse Laurene Powell (1991–present) Children 4 Signature Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is an American business magnate and inventor. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in the 1995 movie Toy Story as an executive producer.11 In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula,12 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 the mouse-driven graphical user interface which led to the creation of the Macintosh.1314 After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1984,1516 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 has served as its CEO since 1997. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios.17 He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1% until its acquisition by The Walt Disney company in 2006.3 Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7% and a member of Disney's Board of Directors.18192021 Jobs' history in business has contributed much to the symbolic image of the idiosyncratic, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, emphasizing the importance of design and understanding the crucial role aesthetics play in public appeal. His work driving forward the development of products that are both functional and elegant has earned him a devoted following.22 Contents 1 Early years 2 Career 2.1 Beginnings of Apple Computer 2.2 NeXT Computer 2.3 Pixar and Disney 2.4 Return to Apple 3 Business life 3.1 Wealth 3.2 Stock options backdating issue 3.3 Management style 3.4 Inventions 4 Personal life 4.1 Health concerns 5 Honors 6 In popular culture 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 External links 10.1 Articles 10.2 Interviews Early years Steve Jobs at the WWDC 07 Jobs was born in San Francisco1 and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs (née Hagopian)23 of Mountain View, California, who named him Steven Paul. Paul and Clara later adopted a daughter, who they named Patti. Jobs' biological parents — Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian24 graduate student who later became a political science professor,25 and Joanne Simpson, an American graduate student24 who went on to become a speech language pathologist26 — later married, giving birth to and raising Jobs' biological sister, the novelist Mona Simpson.272829303132 Jobs attended Cupertino Junior High School and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California,22 and frequented after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California. He was soon hired there and worked with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee.33 In 1972, Jobs graduated from high school and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Although he dropped out after only one semester,34 he continued auditing classes at Reed, such as one in calligraphy, while sleeping on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple.16 Jobs later stated, "If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."16 In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Wozniak. He took a job as a technician at Atari, a manufacturer of popular video games, with the primary intent of saving money for a spiritual retreat to India. Jobs then traveled to India with a Reed College friend (and, later, the first Apple employee), Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment. He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing.3536 During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics, calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life".37 He has stated that people around him who did not share his countercultural roots could not fully relate to his thinking.37 Jobs returned to his previous job at Atari and was given the task of creating a circuit board for the game Breakout. According to Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, Atari had offered US$100 for each chip that was eliminated in the machine. Jobs had little interest or knowledge in circuit board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the bonus evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Much to the amazement of Atari, Wozniak reduced the number of chips by 50, a design so tight that it was impossible to reproduce on an assembly line. At the time, Jobs told Wozniak that Atari had only given them $700 (instead of the actual $5000) and that Wozniak's share was thus $350.383940414243 Career Beginnings of Apple Computer See also: History of Apple Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the fifth D: All Things Digital conference (D5) in 2007. In 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne,44 with later funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing manager and engineer A.C. "Mike" Markkula Jr.,12 founded Apple. Prior to co-founding Apple, Wozniak was an electronics hacker. Jobs and Wozniak had been friends for several years, having met in 1971, when their mutual friend, Bill Fernandez, introduced 21-year-old Wozniak to 16-year-old Jobs. Steve Jobs managed to interest Wozniak in assembling a computer and selling it. As Apple continued to expand, the company began looking for an experienced executive to help manage its expansion. In 1978, Apple recruited Mike Scott from National Semiconductor to serve as CEO for what turned out to be several turbulent years. In 1983, Steve Jobs lured John Sculley away from Pepsi-Cola to serve as Apple's CEO, asking, "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?"4546 The following year, Apple aired a Super Bowl television commercial titled "1984." At Apple's annual shareholders meeting on January 24, 1984, an emotional Jobs introduced the Macintosh to a wildly enthusiastic audience; Andy Hertzfeld described the scene as "pandemonium."47 The Macintosh became the first commercially successful small computer with a graphical user interface. The development of the Mac was started by Jef Raskin, and eventually taken over by Jobs.

While Jobs was a persuasive and charismatic director for Apple, some of his employees from that time had described him as an erratic and temperamental manager. An industry-wide sales slump towards the end of 1984 caused a deterioration in Jobs's working relationship with Sculley, and at the end of May 1985 – following an internal power struggle and an announcement of significant layoffs – Sculley relieved Jobs of his duties as head of the Macintosh division.48 NeXT Computer See also: NeXT Around the same time, Jobs founded another computer company, NeXT Computer. Like the Apple Lisa, the NeXT workstation was technologically advanced; however, it was largely dismissed by industry as cost-prohibitive. Among those who could afford it, however, the NeXT workstation garnered a strong following because of its technical strengths, chief among them its object-oriented software development system. Jobs marketed NeXT products to the scientific and academic fields because of the innovative, experimental new technologies it incorporated (such as the Mach kernel, the digital signal processor chip, and the built-in Ethernet port). The NeXTcube was described by Jobs as an "interpersonal" computer, which he believed was the next step after "personal" computing. That is, if computers could allow people to communicate and collaborate together in an easy way, it would solve many of the problems that "personal" computing had come up against. "1990 CERN: A Joint proposal for a hypertext system is presented to the management. Mike Sendall buys a NeXT cube for evaluation, and gives it to Tim [Berners-Lee]. Tim's prototype implementation on NeXTStep is made in the space of a few months, thanks to the qualities of the NeXTStep software development system. This prototype offers WYSIWYG browsing/authoring! Current Web browsers used in "surfing the Internet" are mere passive windows, depriving the user of the possibility to contribute. During some sessions in the CERN cafeteria, Tim and I try to find a catching name for the system. I was determined that the name should not yet again be taken from Greek mythology. Tim proposes "World-Wide Web". I like this very much, except that it is difficult to pronounce in French..." by Robert Cailliau, 2 November 1995. 49 During a time when e-mail for most people was plain text, Jobs loved to demo the NeXT's e-mail system, NeXTMail, as an example of his "interpersonal" philosophy. NeXTMail was one of the first to support universally visible, clickable embedded graphics and audio within e-mail. Jobs ran NeXT with an obsession for aesthetic perfection, as evidenced by such things as the NeXTcube's magnesium case. This put considerable strain on NeXT's hardware division, and in 1993, after having sold only 50,000 machines, NeXT transitioned fully to software development with the release of NeXTSTEP/Intel. 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.50 The new company, which was originally based at Lucasfilm's Kerner Studios in San Rafael, California, but has since relocated to Emeryville, California, was initially intended to be a high-end graphics hardware developer. After years of unprofitability selling the Pixar Image Computer, it contracted with Disney to produce a number of computer-animated feature films, which Disney would co-finance and distribute. The first film produced by the partnership, Toy Story, brought fame and critical acclaim to the studio when it was released in 1995. Over the next ten plus years, under Pixar's creative chief John Lasseter, the company would produce the box-office hits A Bug's Life (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). Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up and Toy Story 3 each received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, an award introduced in 2001. In the years 2003 and 2004, as Pixar's contract with Disney was running out, Jobs and Disney chief executive Michael Eisner tried but failed to negotiate a new partnership,51 and in early 2004 Jobs announced that Pixar would seek a new partner to distribute its films once its contract with Disney expired. In October 2005, Bob Iger replaced Eisner at Disney, and Iger quickly worked to patch up relations with Jobs and Pixar. On January 24, 2006, Jobs and Iger announced that Disney had agreed to purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. Once the deal closed, Jobs became The Walt Disney Company's largest single shareholder with approximately 7% of the company's stock.18 Jobs's holdings in Disney far exceed those of Eisner, who holds 1.7%, and Disney family member Roy E. Disney, who held about 1% of the company's stock and whose criticisms of Eisner included the soured Pixar relationship and accelerated his ousting. Jobs joined the company's board of directors upon completion of the merger. Wikinews has related news: Disney buys Pixar Jobs also helps oversee Disney and Pixar's combined animation businesses with a seat on a special six-man steering committee. Return to Apple Jobs on stage at Macworld Conference & Expo, San Francisco, January 11, 2005. See also: "1998–2005: Return to profitability" in Apple Inc. In 1996, Apple announced that it would buy NeXT for $429 million. The deal was finalized in late 1996,52 bringing Jobs back to the company he had co-founded. He soon became Apple's interim CEO after the directors lost confidence in and ousted then-CEO Gil Amelio in a boardroom coup. In March 1998, to concentrate Apple's efforts on returning to profitability, Jobs immediately terminated a number of projects such as Newton, Cyberdog, and OpenDoc. In the coming months, many employees developed a fear of encountering Jobs while riding in the elevator, "afraid that they might not have a job when the doors opened. The reality was that Jobs' summary executions were rare, but a handful of victims was enough to terrorize a whole company."53 Jobs also changed the licensing program for Macintosh clones, making it too costly for the manufacturers to continue making machines. With the purchase of NeXT, much of the company's technology found its way into Apple products, most notably NeXTSTEP, which evolved into Mac OS X. Under Jobs's guidance the company increased sales significantly with the introduction of the iMac and other new products; since then, appealing designs and powerful branding have worked well for Apple. At the 2000 Macworld Expo, Jobs officially dropped the "interim" modifier from his title at Apple and became permanent CEO. Jobs quipped at the time that he would be using the title 'iCEO.'54 In recent years, the company has branched out, introducing and improving upon other digital appliances. With the introduction of the iPod portable music player, iTunes digital music software, and the iTunes Store, the company made forays into consumer electronics and music distribution. In 2007, Apple entered the cellular phone business with the introduction of the iPhone, a multi-touch display cell phone, which also included the features of an iPod and, with its own mobile browser, revolutionized the mobile browsing scene. While stimulating innovation, Jobs also reminds his employees that "real artists ship",55 by which he means that delivering working products on time is as important as innovation and attractive design.

Jobs is both admired and criticized for his consummate skill at persuasion and salesmanship, which has been dubbed the "reality distortion field" and is particularly evident during his keynote speeches (colloquially known as "Stevenotes") at Macworld Expos and at Apple's own World Wide Developers Conferences. In 2005, Jobs responded to criticism of Apple's poor recycling programs for e-waste in the U.S. by lashing out at environmental and other advocates at Apple's Annual Meeting in Cupertino in April. However, a few weeks later, Apple announced it would take back iPods for free at its retail stores. The Computer TakeBack Campaign responded by flying a banner from a plane over the Stanford University graduation at which Jobs was the commencement speaker.16 The banner read "Steve — Don't be a mini-player recycle all e-waste". In 2006, he further expanded Apple's recycling programs to any U.S. customer who buys a new Mac. This program includes shipping and "environmentally friendly disposal" of their old systems.56 Business life Wealth As of October 2009, Jobs owned 5.426 million shares of Apple, most of which was granted in 2003 when Jobs was given 10 million shares. He also owned 138 million shares of Disney, which he had received in exchange for Disney's acquisition of Pixar.57 Forbes estimated his net wealth at $5.1 billion in 2009, making him the 43rd wealthiest American.58 After Bloomberg had accidentally published Jobs' obituary in 2008, Arik Hesseldahl of BusinessWeek magazine noted that "Jobs isn’t widely known for his association with philanthropic causes", compared to Bill Gates' efforts.59 After resuming control of Apple in 1997, Jobs eliminated all corporate philanthropy programs.60 Stock options backdating issue In 2001, Steve Jobs was granted stock options in the amount of 7.5 million shares of Apple with an exercise price of $18.30, which allegedly should have been $21.10, thereby incurring taxable income of $20,000,000 that he did not report as income. This indicated backdating. Apple overstated its earnings by that same amount. If found liable, Jobs might have faced a number of criminal charges and civil penalties. Apple claimed that the options were originally granted at a special board meeting that may never have taken place. Furthermore, the investigation is focusing on false dating of the options resulting in a retroactive $20 million increase in the exercise price. The case is the subject of active criminal and civil government investigations,61 though an independent internal Apple investigation completed on December 29, 2006, found that Jobs was unaware of these issues and that the options granted to him were returned without being exercised in 2003.62 On July 1, 2008, a $7 billion class action suit was filed against several members of the Apple Board of Directors for revenue lost due to the alleged securities fraud.6364 Management style Much has been made of Jobs' aggressive and demanding personality. Fortune wrote that he "is considered one of Silicon Valley's leading egomaniacs."65 Commentaries on his temperamental style can be found in Mike Moritz's The Little Kingdom, one of the few authorized biographies of Jobs; The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, by Alan Deutschman; and iCon: Steve Jobs, by Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon. Jef Raskin, a former colleague, once said that Jobs "would have made an excellent king of France," alluding to Jobs' compelling and larger-than-life persona.66 Jobs has 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 legend Wayne Gretzky:67 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 Floyd Norman said that at Pixar, Jobs was a "mature, mellow individual" and never interfered with the creative process of the filmmakers.68 In 2005, Steve Jobs banned all books published by John Wiley & Sons from Apple Stores in response to their publishing an unauthorized biography, iCon: Steve Jobs.69 In its 2010 annual earnings report, Wiley said it had "closed a deal ... to make its titles available for the iPad."70 Inventions Jobs is listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor in over 230 awarded patents or patent applications related to a range of technologies from actual computer and portable devices to user interfaces (including touch-based), speakers, keyboards, power adapters, staircases, clasps, sleeves, lanyards and packages.7172 Personal life Jobs married Laurene Powell, on March 18, 1991. Presiding over the wedding was the Zen Buddhist monk Kobun Chino Otogawa.73 The couple have a son, Reed Paul Jobs,74 and two other children. Jobs also has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan.75 She briefly raised their daughter on welfare when Jobs denied paternity, claiming that he was sterile; he later acknowledged paternity.75 In the unauthorized biography, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, author Alan Deutschman reports that Jobs once dated Joan Baez. Deutschman quotes Elizabeth Holmes, a friend of Jobs from his time at Reed College, as saying she "believed that Steve became the lover of Joan Baez in large measure because Baez had been the lover of Bob Dylan." In another unauthorized biography, iCon: Steve Jobs by Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon, the authors suggest that Jobs might have married Baez, but her age at the time (41) meant it was unlikely the couple could have children. Jobs is also a Beatles fan. He has referenced them on more than one occasion 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:76 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. In 1982, Jobs bought an apartment in The San Remo, an apartment building in New York City with a politically progressive reputation, where Demi Moore, Steven Spielberg, Steve Martin, and Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, daughter of Rita Hayworth, also had apartments. With the help of I.M. Pei, Jobs spent years renovating his apartment in the top two floors of the building's north tower, only to sell it almost two decades later to U2 frontman Bono. Jobs had never moved in.7778 In 1984, Jobs purchased a 17,000-square-foot (1,600 m2), 14 bedroom Spanish Colonial mansion, designed by George Washington Smith in Woodside, California, also known as Jackling House. Although it reportedly remained in an almost unfurnished state, Jobs lived in the mansion for almost ten years. According to reports, he kept an old BMW motorcycle in the living room, and let Bill Clinton use it in 1998. Since the early 1990s, Jobs has lived in a house in the Old Palo Alto neighborhood of Palo Alto. President Clinton dined with Jobs and 14 Silicon Valley CEOs there August 7, 1996.79

He allowed the mansion to fall into a state of disrepair, planning to demolish the house and build a smaller home on the property; but he met with complaints from local preservationists over his plans. In June 2004, the Woodside Town Council gave Jobs approval to demolish the mansion, on the condition that he advertise the property for a year to see if someone would move it to another location and restore it. A number of people expressed interest, including several with experience in restoring old property, but no agreements to that effect were reached. Later that same year, a local preservationist group began seeking legal action to prevent demolition. In January 2007 Jobs was denied the right to demolish the property, by a court decision.80 The court decision was overturned on appeal in March 2010 and the mansion was demolished beginning February 201181 He usually wears a black long-sleeved mock turtleneck made by St. Croix, Levi's 501 blue jeans, and New Balance 991 sneakers.82 He is a pescetarian.83 His choice of car is a silver 2006 Mercedes SL 55 AMG, which has no licence plates.8485 Jobs had a public war of words with Dell Computer CEO Michael Dell, starting when Jobs first criticized Dell for making "un-innovative beige boxes."86 On October 6, 1997, in a Gartner Symposium, when Michael Dell was asked what he would do if he owned then-troubled Apple Computer, he said "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."87 In 2006, Steve Jobs sent an email to all employees when Apple's market capitalization rose above Dell's. The email read:88 Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today. Steve. Health concerns In mid-2004, Jobs announced to his employees that he had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his pancreas.89 The prognosis for pancreatic cancer is usually very grim; Jobs, however, stated that he had a rare, far less aggressive type known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor.89 After initially resisting the idea of conventional medical intervention and embarking on a special diet to thwart the disease, Jobs underwent a pancreaticoduodenectomy (or "Whipple procedure") in July 2004 that appeared to successfully remove the tumor.9091 Jobs apparently did not require nor receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy.8992 During Jobs' absence, Timothy D. Cook, head of worldwide sales and operations at Apple, ran the company.89 Jobs at the 2008 Macworld Conference & Expo. In early August 2006, Jobs delivered the keynote for Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference. His "thin, almost gaunt" appearance and unusually "listless" delivery,9394 together with his choice to delegate significant portions of his keynote to other presenters, inspired a flurry of media and internet speculation about his health.95 In contrast, according to an Ars Technica journal report, WWDC attendees who saw Jobs in person said he "looked fine";96 following the keynote, an Apple spokesperson said that "Steve's health is robust."97 Two years later, similar concerns followed Jobs' 2008 WWDC keynote address;98 Apple officials stated Jobs was victim to a "common bug" and that he was taking antibiotics,99 while others surmised his cachectic appearance was due to the Whipple procedure.100 During a July conference call discussing Apple earnings, participants responded to repeated questions about Steve Jobs' health by insisting that it was a "private matter." Others, however, voiced the opinion that shareholders had a right to know more, given Jobs' hands-on approach to running his company.101 The New York Times published an article based on an off-the-record phone conversation with Jobs, noting that "while his health issues have amounted to a good deal more than 'a common bug,' they weren’t life-threatening and he doesn’t have a recurrence of cancer."102 On August 28, 2008, Bloomberg mistakenly published a 2500-word obituary of Jobs in its corporate news service, containing blank spaces for his age and cause of death. (News carriers customarily stockpile up-to-date obituaries to facilitate news delivery in the event of a well-known figure's untimely death.) Although the error was promptly rectified, many news carriers and blogs reported on it,103104105 intensifying rumors concerning Jobs' health.106 Jobs responded at Apple's September 2008 Let's Rock keynote by quoting Mark Twain: "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated";107 at a subsequent media event, Jobs concluded his presentation with a slide reading "110/70", referring to his blood pressure, stating he would not address further questions about his health.108 On December 16, 2008, Apple announced that marketing vice-president Phil Schiller would deliver the company's final keynote address at the Macworld Conference and Expo 2009, again reviving questions about Jobs' health.109110111 In a statement given on January 5, 2009 on Apple.com,112 Jobs said that he had been suffering from a "hormone imbalance" for several months.113 On January 14, 2009, in an internal Apple memo, Jobs wrote that in the previous week he had "learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought" and announced a six-month leave of absence until the end of June 2009 to allow him to better focus on his health. Tim Cook, who had previously acted as CEO in Jobs' 2004 absence, became acting CEO of Apple,114 with Jobs still involved with "major strategic decisions."114 In April 2009, Jobs underwent a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, Tennessee.115116 Jobs' prognosis was "excellent."116 On January 17, 2011, one and a half years after Jobs returned from his liver transplant, Apple announced that he had been granted a medical leave of absence. Jobs announced his leave in a letter to employees, stating his decision was made "so he could focus on his health." As during his 2009 medical leave, Apple announced that Tim Cook would run day-to-day operations and that Jobs would continue to be involved in major strategic decisions at the company.117118 On March 2, 2011 Steve Jobs made an appearance at the iPad 2 launch event. Honors He was awarded the National Medal of Technology from President Ronald Reagan in 1984 with Steve Wozniak (among the first people to ever receive the honor),119 and a Jefferson Award for Public Service in the category "Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Under" (aka the Samuel S. Beard Award) in 1987.120 On November 27, 2007, Jobs was named the most powerful person in business by Fortune Magazine.121 On December 5, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Jobs into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.122 In August 2009, Jobs was selected the most admired entrepreneur among teenagers on a survey by Junior Achievement.123 On November 5, 2009, Jobs was named the CEO of the decade by Fortune Magazine.124

In November 2009 Jobs was ranked #57 on Forbes: The World's Most Powerful People.125 In December 2010, the Financial Times named Jobs its person of the year for 2010, ending its essay by stating, "In his autobiography, John Sculley, the former PepsiCo executive who once ran Apple, said this of the ambitions of the man he had pushed out: 'Apple was supposed to become a wonderful consumer products company. This was a lunatic plan. High-tech could not be designed and sold as a consumer product.' How wrong can you be".126 In popular culture Due to his young age, great wealth, and charisma, after Apple's founding Jobs became a symbol of his company and industry. When Time named the computer as the 1982 "Machine of the Year", it published a long profile of him as "the most famous maestro of the micro."127128 Jobs was prominently featured in three films about the history of the personal computing industry: Triumph of the Nerds — a 1996 three-part documentary for PBS, about the rise of the home computer/personal computer. Nerds 2.0.1 — a 1998 three-part documentary for PBS, (and sequel to Triumph of the Nerds) which chronicles the development of the Internet. Pirates of Silicon Valley — a 1999 docudrama which chronicles the rise of Apple and Microsoft. He was portrayed by Noah Wyle. See also Book: Apple Inc. Wikipedia Books are collections of articles that can be downloaded or ordered in print. Organization of the artist Notes ^ a b c "Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories: Steve Jobs". Smithsonian Institution. April 20, 1995. http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/sj1.html. Retrieved September 20, 2006.  ^ Gauvin, P and Arrington, V. 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Articles Anecdotes from Steve Jobs' early days in Apple as reported by Andy Hertzfeld. Folklore.org. Lohr, Steve (January 12, 1997). "Creating Jobs". New York Times Magazine. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04EED71139F931A25752C0A961958260. Retrieved October 27, 2007.  Booth, Cathy (August 18, 1997). "Steve's job: restart Apple". Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986849,00.html. Retrieved October 27, 2007.  Elkind, Peter (March 5, 2008). "The trouble with Steve Jobs". Fortune. http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008030513. Retrieved March 5, 2008.  Interviews Smithsonian Institution Oral History InterviewPDF (143 KB) — April 20, 1995. Steve Jobs in 1994: The Rolling Stone Interview, Rolling Stone – Republished January 17, 2011. Archived URL The Seed of Apple's Innovation, BusinessWeek — October 12, 2004. How Big Can Apple Get?, Fortune — February 21, 2005. ‘Good for the Soul’ at the Wayback Machine (archived October 22, 2006)., Newsweek — October 15, 2006. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs (video and transcript of on stage interview), All Things D – May 30, 2007. Videotaped Deposition of Steven P. Jobs in front of the Securities and Exchange Commission  – March 18, 2008 Business positions Preceded by Gil Amelio CEO of Apple 1997–present Succeeded by Incumbent v · d · ePixar Animation Studios Feature films Toy Story (1995) · A Bug's Life (1998) · Toy Story 2 (1999) · Monsters, Inc. (2001) · Finding Nemo (2003) · The Incredibles (2004) · Cars (2006) · Ratatouille (2007) · WALL-E (2008) · Up (2009) · Toy Story 3 (2010) · Cars 2 (2011) · Brave (2012) · Monsters University (2012) Shorts Original Luxo Jr. (1986) · Red's Dream (1987) · Tin Toy (1988) · Knick Knack (1989) · Geri's Game (1997) · For the Birds (2000) · Boundin' (2003) · One Man Band (2005) · Lifted (2006) · Presto (2008) · Partly Cloudy (2009) · Day & Night (2010) Film-based Mike's New Car (2002) · Jack-Jack Attack (2005) · Mater and the Ghostlight (2006) · Your Friend the Rat (2007) · BURN-E (2008) · Dug's Special Mission (2009) Short series Toy Story Treats (1996) · Cars Toons (2008–2010) Associated productions The Adventures of André and Wally B. (1984) · John Carter of Mars (2012) · 1906 (2012) Compilations Tiny Toy Stories (1996) · Pixar Short Films Collection – Volume 1 (2007) Documentaries The Pixar Story (2007) · To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios (2007) Products Pixar Image Computer · RenderMan · Marionette People John Lasseter · Edwin Catmull · Steve Jobs · Alvy Ray Smith · Jim Morris · Pete Docter · Andrew Stanton · Brad Bird · Lee Unkrich · Gary Rydstrom · Brenda Chapman · Brad Lewis · Bob Peterson · Joe Ranft · Mark Andrews See also List of Pixar characters · List of Pixar awards and nominations (feature films · shorts) · List of Pixar film references v · d · eThe Walt Disney Company Company Officials Company Founders Walter Elias Disney · Roy Oliver Disney Executive Management Robert Iger · Jay Rasulo · Alan N. Braverman · Ronald L. Iden · Brent Woodford · Jayne Parker · Zenia Mucha · Preston Padden · Christine M. McCarthy · Kevin Mayer Board of Directors Susan Arnold · John Bryson · John S. Chen · Judith Estrin · Robert Iger (President, CEO) · Steve Jobs (Single largest shareholder) · Fred Langhammer · Aylwin Lewis · Robert Matschullat · John E. Pepper, Jr. (Chairman) · Sheryl Sandberg · Orin C. Smith Former Management Donn Tatum · E. Cardon Walker · Ron Millar · Frank G. Wells · Michael D. Eisner · Michael Ovitz · Roy E. 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Sale to Radio Las Americas pending. AaBbCc = Station currently silent. Sale to Salem Communications pending. 1. Disney manages and operates this station owned by James Crystal Radio under an LMA. 2. Disney manages and operates this station owned by Liberman Broadcasting under an LMA. Annual revenue: $63.1 billion USD (2010) · Employees: 150,000 (2008) · Stock symbol: NYSE: DIS · Website: corporate.disney.go.com v · d · eKey figures in the history of Apple Inc. CEOs Michael Scott (1977–1981) · Mike Markkula (1981–1983) · John Sculley (1983–1993) · Michael Spindler (1993–1996) · Gil Amelio (1996–1997) · Steve Jobs (1976-1985: 1997-present) Executives and Alumni Steve Wozniak · Ronald Wayne · Jef Raskin · Andy Hertzfeld · Bill Atkinson · Susan Kare · Guy Kawasaki · Jean-Louis Gassée · Del Yocam · Jonathan Ive · David Nagel · Philip W. Schiller · Avie Tevanian · Jon Rubinstein · Chris Espinosa · Scott Forstall  · Bertrand Serlet · Bob Mansfield · Bud Tribble · Greg Joswiak · Daniel Kottke v · d · eApple Inc. Annual revenue: $65.23 billion (2010) · Employees: 49,400 · Stock symbol: NASDAQ: AAPL, LSE: ACP, FWB: APC · Website: www.apple.com Board of directors Bill Campbell · Millard Drexler · Al Gore · Steve Jobs · Andrea Jung · Arthur D. Levinson · Ronald Sugar Hardware products Apple TV · iPad (Original, 2) · iPhone (3GS, 4) · iPod (Classic, Nano, Shuffle, Touch) · Mac (iMac, MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mini, Pro) · Discontinued products Accessories AirPort · Cinema Display · iPod accessories · Mighty Mouse · Magic Mouse · Magic Trackpad · Keyboard · Time Capsule Software products Aperture · Bento · FileMaker Pro · Final Cut Studio · GarageBand · iLife · iOS · iTunes · iWork · Logic Studio · Mac OS X (Server) · QuickTime · Safari · Xsan Stores and services ADC · AppleCare · Apple Specialist · Apple Store (online) · App Store · Certifications · Game Center · iAd · Genius Bar · iBookstore · iTunes Store · iWork.com · MobileMe · One to One · ProCare Executives Steve Jobs · Tim Cook · Peter Oppenheimer · Phil Schiller · Jonathan Ive · Ron Johnson · Sina Tamaddon · Bertrand Serlet · Scott Forstall · Bob Mansfield Acquisitions Emagic · FingerWorks · Intrinsity · Lala · NeXT · Nothing Real · P.A. Semi · Silicon Color · Siri · Spruce Technologies Related Advertising (1984, Get a Mac, iPods, Slogans) · Braeburn Capital · FileMaker Inc. · History (Criticism, Design, Discontinued products, Litigation, Typography) · IDg Book · Category · Portal · Project · Commons · Template v · d · eHewlett-Packard Company founders William Hewlett • David Packard • Rod Canion • Jim Harris • Bill Murto Board of Directors Raymond J. Lane (Non-Executive Chairman) • Marc Andreessen • Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr. • Sari M. Baldauf • Rajiv L. Gupta • John H. Hammergren • G. Kennedy Thompson • Gary M. Reiner • Patricia F. Russo • Dominique Senequier • Meg Whitman • Current, but will not stand for re-election to the Board: • Joel Z. Hyatt • John R. Joyce • Robert L. Ryan • Lucille Salhany Executive Officers Léo Apotheker • Cathie Lesjak • Shane Robison • Ann Livermore • Vyomesh Joshi • Michael J. Holston • Todd Bradley • Randy Mott • Marcela Perez de Alonso Computer hardware products Compaq Presario • EliteBook • ProBook • Integrity • NonStop • ProLiant • Pavilion • TouchSmart • VoodooPC • Mini • HP Envy • Slate 500 • PalmPad Consumer electronics and accessories Calculators • Deskjet • Photosmart • LaserJet • iPAQ • LightScribe • Palm • Scitex • Snapfish Other divisions 3com • ArcSight • Indigo Digital Press • Scitex • Insight Software • Logoworks • Mercury • Neoware • ProCurve • HP Enterprise Services • TOWER Software Software HP QuickPlay • HyperSpace OS Discontinued products Compaq Deskpro • Compaq Evo • Compaq Portable • Compaq ProLinea • Compaq ProSignia • Compaq SystemPro • Jornada • Omnibook • iPod+HP Alumni List of HP CEO's in Order • Patricia C. Dunn • Robert Wayman • Michael Capellas • Lewis E. Platt • John A. Young • Carly Fiorina • Mark Hurd • Rahul Sood Assets HP Garage • HP Labs See also Acquisitions • Agilent • HP spying scandal • Products • Mission: SPACE Annual revenue: US$104.2 billion (15% FY 2007) • Employees: 309,000 • Stock symbol: NYSE: HPQ • Website: hp.com Persondata Name Jobs, Steve Alternative names Jobs, Steven Paul Short description CEO and Co-Founder of Apple Inc. Date of birth February 24, 1955 Place of birth San Francisco, California, U.S. Date of death Place of death