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Who is Steve Jobs?
Steve Jobs was a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer era. With Steve Wozniak, Jobs founded Apple in 1976 and transformed the company into a world leader in telecommun.ications -
How did Steve Jobs create Apple
In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computer in the Jobs’ family garage. Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer in,.dustry with Apple. In 1980, Apple Computer became a publicly-traded company, with a market value of $1.2 billion by the end of its very first day of trading -
Steve Jobs and Pixar
In 1986, Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios. Believing in Pixar's potential, Jobs initially invested $50 million of his own money in the company. The studio went on to produce wildly popular movies such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles -
Wife and children
Jobs and Laurene Powell married on March 18, 1991. The pair met in the early 1990s at Stanford business school, where Powell was an MBA student. They lived together in Palo Alto, California, with their three children: Reed, Erin, and Eve. Jobs also fathered a daughter, Lisa, with girlfriend Chrisann Brennan in 1978, when he was 23. -
DEATH
Jobs died in Palo Alto on October 5, 2011, after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly a decade. He was 56 years old.
In 2003, Jobs discovered that he had a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare but operable form of pancreatic cancer.
In 2004, Jobs had successful surgery to remove the pancreatic tumor. -
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