Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was a successful American businessman, industrial designer, media mogul, and investor. He was Apple’s co-founder, chairman, and CEO; Pixar’s chairman and majority shareholder; a member of The Walt Disney Company’s board of directors following Pixar’s acquisition; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT.
Along with his early business colleague and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, he is widely regarded as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.
He saw the potential of the Xerox Alto in 1979, which was mouse-driven and had a graphical user interface (GUI). The Macintosh introduced the desktop publishing industry in 1985 with the addition of vector graphics.
Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985 to start NeXT, a computer platform development business. In 1986, he contributed to George Lucas’ Lucasfilm’s computer graphics branch. His new business, Pixar, created the first 3D computer-animated feature film, Toy Story (1995).
Following Apple’s acquisition of NeXT in 1997, Steve Jobs returned as CEO. He collaborated closely with English designer Jony Ive to create a collection of items with broader cultural implications. Jobs died in 2011 after being diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003.
Meet Steve Jobs’ adoptive parents Paul Jobs and Clara Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Schieble and her lover, Abdulfattah Jandali. Schieble’s parents were against her dating a Muslim and demanded that she give up the child for adoption. Paul and Clara Jobs, a couple from Palo Alto, California, adopted Steve Jobs.
According to Isaacson, even though Jobs was always aware that he was adopted, he believed his adoptive parents to be his own parents. Jobs grew up feeling abandoned and special since they chose to give him home while his birth parents chose to give him away.
