Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (
February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American information technology
entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive
officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.; CEO and largest shareholder of Pixar Animation
Studios;[3] a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following
its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT Inc. Jobs is
widely recognized as a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s,
along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Shortly after his death, Jobs's
official biographer, Walter Isaacson, described him as a "creative
entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized
six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet
computing, and digital publishing."
After leaving Apple, Jobs took a few of its
members with him to found NeXT, a computer platform development company
specializing in state-of-the-art computers for higher-education and business
markets. In addition, Jobs helped to initiate the development of the visual
effects industry when he funded the spinout of the computer graphics division
of George Lucas's company Lucasfilm in 1986. The new company, Pixar, would
eventually produce the first fully computer-animated film, Toy Story—an event
made possible in part because of Jobs's financial support.
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