Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the co-founder of Apple Computer. He is also regarded as a pioneer in computing for seeing the potential in a Xerox PARC demonstration of the GUI and mouse, thus causing Apple Computer to unleash the Apple Macintosh.Born to Joanne and (?) Simpson (his biological sister is the novelist Mona Simpson), Steve was adopted soon after birth by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California.
After graduating from Homestead High School[?] in Cupertino, California, in 1972 Jobs enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he dropped out after one semester. In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and began attending meetings of Stephen Wozniak's "Homebrew Computer Club". He took a job at Atari Inc., designing computer games with his friend, Wozniak.
In 1976, Jobs, then 21, and Wozniak, 26, founded Apple Computer Co. in the Jobs' family garage. Jobs and Wozniak put together their first computer, called the Apple I. They marketed it at a price of $666. In 1983, Jobs lured John Scully[?] from Pepsi-Cola to run Apple by telling Scully that he could accomplish something more than just selling sugar water to kids. In 1985, after an internal power struggle, he was stripped of his duties by Scully and ousted from Apple. He departed to found NeXT Computer later that decade.
In 1986 Jobs bought Pixar, an Emeryville, California computer animation studio, from its founder George Lucas for $10 million. In 1991 Jobs married Laurene Powell[?]; they currently have three children. In 1996, Apple bought NeXT for $200 million, and in 1997 Jobs returned to Apple as interim CEO after the departure of Gil Amelio[?]. In 2000, he dropped the "interim" from his title and became full CEO of Apple.
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