स्टीव जॉब्स Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955 and adopted as a baby. He co-founded Apple in 1976 and lost a boardroom fight in 1985. He built NeXT and turned Pixar into a film studio. He came back to Apple in 1997 and led it through the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad. He died in 2011 at the age of 56.
Curated by Nikhil Sharma: a college dropout who spent seven months in India at 19 and came home to co-found Apple. He was forced out of his own company and returned to give the world the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Guests at his memorial went home with Autobiography of a Yogi.
- 1976 Apple founded: With Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on 1 April
- 7 Months in India: His 1974 journey in search of Neem Karoli Baba
- 1995 Toy Story: Pixar’s first feature film. Its IPO made him a billionaire
- 2007 iPhone unveiled: A phone, an iPod and an internet device in one
The facts
- Born
- 24 February 1955 in San Francisco, California (Wikipedia: Steve Jobs)
- Parents
- Born to Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali, who was born in Syria. Adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs (Wikipedia: Steve Jobs)
- Education
- Homestead High School. One semester at Reed College in Portland from 1972. Then audited classes including calligraphy (Wikipedia: Steve Jobs)
- Companies
- Co-founded Apple (1976) and NeXT (1985). Funded Pixar’s spinout from Lucasfilm (1986) (Wikipedia: Steve Jobs)
- At Apple
- CEO from 1997 to August 2011. Then chairman with Tim Cook as his successor (Apple Newsroom: Letter from Steve Jobs (24 August 2011))
- Family
- Married Laurene Powell in 1991. Four children including Lisa, Reed and Eve (Wikipedia: Steve Jobs)
- Spiritual life
- Practised Zen under Kōbun Chino Otogawa. Memorial guests received Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi (CNN Money: Steve Jobs’s last gift (September 2013))
- Died
- 5 October 2011 at home in Palo Alto, aged 56 (CBS News: Death certificate (10 October 2011))
- Honours
- Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded posthumously in 2022 (MacRumors: Presidential Medal of Freedom (7 July 2022))
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