Steve paul jobs was born in/kloc-0 on February 24th, 955. 1972 After graduating from high school, I only studied at Reed College in Portland, Oregon for one semester. 1974 Jobs got a job designing computer games in a company. Two years later, Jobs and Wozniak, then 2 1, then 26, set up Apple Computer Company in Jobs' garage.
Jobs is regarded as an iconic figure in the computer industry and entertainment industry, and also as the creator of well-known digital products such as Macintosh, ipad, iPod, iTunes Store and iPhone.
Jobs is also the former chairman and CEO of Pixar Animation Company (Pixar was acquired by Disney in 2006), which has become the producer of the best-selling animated films Toy Story and Bug Crisis, and is also a member of the board of directors and the largest individual shareholder of Disney Company.
Personal life
Jobs' personal life still has no relevant data to test, except that he is a Buddhist, but Jobs attaches great importance to privacy. Even when he was extremely depressed in public in recent years and the public was worried that his cancer recurrence would lead to the company's share price falling, he did not talk about his health. He only used a subtitle at the Let's Rock conference in September 2008-those reports about my death were exaggerated.
On June 5438+1October 18, 2009, Jobs sent a letter to every employee, claiming that his health was far from what he expected, and he needed to leave the company for treatment temporarily to meet "See you in summer". As soon as the news came out, Apple's share price fell nearly 10% that day.
In April 2009, Jobs received a liver transplant at the Transplantation Institute of Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He has recovered well and has now returned to work.
On June 30, 2009, Apple said that Jobs had returned to work after nearly six months of sick leave. On September 10, 2009, Jobs appeared at Apple's autumn 2009 new product launch conference. This is the first time Jobs has attended a major company event since he went to the hospital.
20 1 1 10, 17, 56-year-old Steve Jobs sent a shocking message to the employees of the company by email: the board of directors has approved his sick leave, and Tim Cook, the chief operating officer, will temporarily take charge of all the daily operations of Apple. This is the second time since June 5438+ 10, 2009 that Jobs left his job due to illness.
20 1 1 On August 24th, Apple's board of directors announced that Jobs had resigned as CEO.
Honor:
1985, Jobs was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Reagan.
1997 became the cover of Time magazine; In the same year, he was named the most successful manager and the famous "computer madman".
In 2007, Steve Jobs was named the greatest businessman of the year by Fortune magazine.
In 2009, he was selected by Fortune magazine as the best CEO of the United States in this decade, and in the same year, he was elected as one of Time magazine's man of the year.