Steve jobs

Steve Jobs

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Nome: (componentes) Steven Paul Jobs, known as Steve Jobs, was born on February 24th, 1955, and died on October 5th, 2011. He was an American entrepreneur and inventor, best known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; He became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar. After a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. In 1986 he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, which was spun off as Pixar. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. He served as CEO and majority shareholder until Disney’s purchase of Pixar, in 2006. In 1996, after Apple had failed to deliver its operating system, Copland, Gil Amelio, an American technology executive, turned to NeXT Computer, and the NeXTSTEP platform became the foundation for the Mac OS X. Jobs returned to Apple as an advisor, and took control of the company as interim CEO. Jobs brought Apple from near bankruptcy to profitability by 1998.

In 1980s, Jobs found his birth mother, Joanne Schieble Simpson, who told him he had a biological sister, Mona Simpson. Jobs’ first child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, was born in 1978, the daughter of his longtime partner Chris Ann Brennan. Jobs later married Laurene Powell on March 18th, 1991. Their son, Reed, was born September 1991, followed by daughters Erin in August 1995, and Eve in 1998. In October 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with cancer, and in mid-2004 he announced that he had a cancerous tumor in his pancreas.

Jobs was a demanding perfectionist who always aspired to position his businesses and their products at the forefront of the information technology industry by foreseeing and setting