Steve Jobs One of the founders of Apple Date of Birth: 24.02.1955 Country: USA

Biography of Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, an American engineer and entrepreneur, was born on February 24, 1955, in Mountain View, California. He spent his childhood and adolescence in the same town, in the foster family of Paul and Clara Jobs, to whom he was entrusted for upbringing by his biological mother. In school, Jobs developed an interest in electronics and gravitated towards socializing with older kids. It was there that he met Steve Wozniak, his future colleague at Apple. Their first joint venture bordered on mischief: the two Steves created the so-called BlueBox, a device that allowed making long-distance phone calls for free. According to legend, they later built their first business based on the same scheme. Wozniak manufactured these devices during his studies at Berkeley, while Jobs, a high school student at the time, was responsible for their sales.

After graduating from high school in 1972, Steve Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He voluntarily dropped out after the first semester but continued to live in his friends' dorms for another year and a half. During this time, he took calligraphy courses, which later inspired him to incorporate scalable fonts into the MacOS system. Jobs then got a job at Atari. Five years later, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak became the founders of the company "Apple." Established on April 1, 1976, and officially registered in early 1977, Apple was engaged in the production of their own-designed computers. While Wozniak was the author of most of the developments, Jobs played the role of a marketer. It is believed that Jobs convinced Wozniak to improve the microcomputer scheme he had invented, thus giving impetus to the creation of the personal computer market.

In 1986, Jobs sold most of his Apple shares and founded NeXT Computer. A year later, he became one of the founders of the animation studio Pixar. Under Jobs' leadership, Pixar released films such as "Toy Story," "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," and "Monsters, Inc." In 2006, Jobs sold Pixar to Walt Disney Studios for $7.4 billion in Disney stocks. He remained on Pixar's board of directors and became the largest individual shareholder of Disney, owning 7% of the company's shares. In 2000, the word "interim" disappeared from Jobs' job title, and the Apple founder entered the Guinness Book of Records as the CEO with the most modest salary in the world (officially, Jobs' salary at that time was $1 a year; subsequently, other corporate executives used similar salary schemes).

In 2001, Steve Jobs introduced the first iPod player. Within a few years, iPod sales became the main source of Apple's income. Under Jobs' leadership, Apple significantly strengthened its position in the personal computer market by transitioning Macintosh machines to high-performance Intel processors by 2006. In the same year, the company introduced the Apple TV network multimedia player. In 2007, the sales of the iPhone mobile phone began. In 2008, Steve showcased the thinnest laptop in the world, named MacBook Air.