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Steve Jobs
American businessman and inventor (1955–2011)
- Life
- 1955 – 2011
- Born
- February 24, 1955
- Died
- October 5, 2011
- Nationality
- United States
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 clos
