Steve Jobs was an genius inventor and entrepreneur of America.He was the co-founder,CEO,and Chairman of Apple Inc.He was also the executive producer of Toy Story.Jobs left the earth on October 5 because of pancreatic cancer.
Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955 and adopted by an American family.After his high school graduation he enrolled at Reed College in Portland.After only one semester he dropped out from this college.In 1974 he took a job as a technician at Atari.In 1976 Jobs,Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak established Apple with A.C.Mike Markkula Jr.,the engineer and the then semi-retired intel product marketing manager.He designed,improved and marketed one of the first lines of personal computers.Then jobs introduced the Macintosh,which was the first commercially successful small computer with a graphical user interface.In 1985 Jobs lost the power struggle with the board of directors and then he resigned from Apple;he created NeXT,a computer platform.Jobs marketed NeXT products to the academic community,financial,scientific,highlighting its new technologies
.In 1996 Apple bought NeXT and brought Jobs back to Apple.In 1997 Jobs named as a CEO of Apple.Then he started to introduce new products to the world such as ipod,iphone etc.He brought a great success for Apple by his hard-working and charismatic dedication.Jobs was also a good human being.He served his employees by his nice behaviour.He always concentrates on innovation, attractive design and customers need.He was both praised and criticized for his consummate ability at salesmanship and persuation in his entire life.
According to Forbes,his net wealth $8.3 billion,he held 5.426 million Apple shares, as well as 138 million shares in Disney.Steve Jobs was granted stock options in the amount of 7.5 million shares of Apple.He married Laurene Powell in 1991.He had 4 childrens.
In mid-2004 Jobs had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his pancreas.He also had been suffering from a hormone imbalance since 2009.In the same year he underwent a liver transplant.On August 24,2011 he resigned from his role as Apple’s CEO because of the death-trap.He announced Tim Cook as a next CEO of Apple,who acted as CEO in Jobs absence, and involved with major strategic decisions.
On October 5,2011 Jobs died at age 56 in California.The world lost an awesome person,a business legend and an unique inventor.Though he lost his life but he will be considered as an eternal person.The undying person Steve Jobs will live in the heart of every people forever.
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