The man who decided that technology should be beautiful—and rebuilt the world around that conviction.
Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976 in his parents' garage. After being ousted from Apple in 1985, he founded NeXT and acquired Pixar, turning it into a studio that redefined animated film with Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles. When Apple bought NeXT in 1997, Jobs returned and engineered the most remarkable corporate comeback in history: the iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, and iPad—each product reshaping an entire industry. He believed design and engineering were inseparable and demanded that excellence extend to every component, including parts customers would never see. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003 and died on October 5, 2011, at 56. The devices he created now outnumber people on Earth.
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
Fused technology with design thinking and created products that billions use daily, permanently raising the bar for what a consumer device could feel like.
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