

24 Feb 1955 — 5 Oct 2011
“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
Steve Jobs's Birth Location
San Francisco
Steve Jobs's Burial Location
Alta Mesa Memorial Park
Steve Jobs's Death Location
Palo Alto

In 1976, Jobs co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.

Apple II helped define the first wave of personal computing, and the Macintosh introduced a more intuitive graphical experience to a broad audience.

After leaving Apple in 1985, Jobs founded NeXT and acquired Pixar, helping steer computer animation into a new era and backing the studio that released Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film.

Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 and led one of the most consequential turnarounds in business history. Under his leadership Apple released the iMac, iPod, iTunes Store, iPhone, iPad, and Apple retail stores, reshaping several industries at once.

He became known for exacting standards, dramatic product presentations, and a conviction that technology should be powerful, simple, and humane.
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In Loving Memory of Steve Jobs
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A portrait of Steve Jobs in the years when Apple defined a new era
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The beginnings, relationships, creative choices and defining work behind a life that continues to resonate
Steven Paul Jobs was an American entrepreneur, inventor, and product visionary whose work changed personal computing, digital music, animation, phones, and the way technology is experienced in everyday life. Born in San Francisco in 1955 and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, he was raised in the Santa Clara Valley, where curiosity about electronics, design, and craftsmanship took hold early.

In 1976, Jobs co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.

Apple II helped define the first wave of personal computing, and the Macintosh introduced a more intuitive graphical experience to a broad audience.

After leaving Apple in 1985, Jobs founded NeXT and acquired Pixar, helping steer computer animation into a new era and backing the studio that released Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film.

Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 and led one of the most consequential turnarounds in business history. Under his leadership Apple released the iMac, iPod, iTunes Store, iPhone, iPad, and Apple retail stores, reshaping several industries at once.

He became known for exacting standards, dramatic product presentations, and a conviction that technology should be powerful, simple, and humane.

He died on October 5, 2011, in Palo Alto, California. He became known for exacting standards, dramatic product presentations, and a conviction that technology should be powerful, simple, and humane. He died on October 5, 2011, in Palo Alto, California.

His legacy endures in the companies he built, the products he helped bring into daily life, and the belief that design and engineering are strongest when they serve human imagination together.


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