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Steve Jobs


Born: 24th February 1955, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.




Known For : Steve Jobs is best known for being Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc. Apple started in 1976 with the Apple I personal computer kit. Over the next few years the company grew and evolved and in 1984, Apple launched the Macintosh. Following a power struggle inside the company in 1985 Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT Inc. The following year he bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division and changed the company from a producer of the Pixar Image Computer into a producer of computer-animated feature films, the first of which was Toy Story. The rest as they say is history and in 2006 Disney purchased Pixar making Steve Jobs Walt Disney Company's largest single shareholder. In 1996 Apple purchased Next and Steve Jobs once again headed the company. Apple had been failing prior to the return of Steve Jobs who turned the company around and has provided the inspiration for Apple to be one of the most admired companies in the world. He has been suffering from illness since 2004 including a cancerous tumor in his pancreas and because is so aligned with Apple's success, each time rumors surface about his health Apple shares are adversely affected. The video is Steve Jobs Keynote speech introducing the Iphone.