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Steve Jobs

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Born February 24, 1955 · San Francisco, California, USA

Died October 5, 2011

Also known as Steven Paul Jobs

Biography

Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board of directors fired him in 1985, he founded NeXT the same year and purchased Pixar in 1986, becoming its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007. Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 as CEO, 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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Awards & recognition

  • Presidential Medal of Freedom · 2022
  • Disney Legends · 2013
  • Grammy Trustees Award · 2012
  • National Inventors Hall of Fame · 2012
  • Financial Times Person of the Year · 2010
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  • California Hall of Fame · 2007
  • National Medal of Technology and Innovation · 1985

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