Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs guided Apple to be a major player in the digital revolution. The creation of the iMac and other products made Apple a powerful brand with millions of customers. Jobs was also very successful at Pixar. He created Oscar-winning movies such as ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Finding Nemo’. He thought that the only way to succeed in life was to find what you really like doing.  

Jobs’ name is associated with innovative products like the iPod, iPhone, iTunes and iPad. He was a much-respected corporate leader whose management style is studied worldwide. His attention to design, function and style won him millions of fans.

Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955. He became interested in computers when he was a teenager and attended lectures after school at Hewlett Packard. In 1974, Jobs got a job as a technician at the video game maker Atari. He saved enough money and then he travelled around India. When he came back  he met Steve Wozniak.

Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple in 1976. Jobs persuaded Wozniak to make a computer and sell it. Together, they developed the Mac. It was the first small computer with a user-friendly interface to be commercially successful. Jobs also built the computer on which the World Wide Web was created.

He died in October 2011, he was 56.