Steve Jobs

1955 – 2011

Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor who co-founded Apple Computer Company in 1976 with Steve Wozniak, becoming a central figure in the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. After Apple’s board removed him in 1985, he founded NeXT and purchased Pixar in 1986, serving as its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007. He returned to Apple as CEO in 1997, where he was closely involved with the creation and promotion of many of the company’s most influential products until his resignation in 2011.

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