Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Steve Jobs

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, United State, February 24, 1955. Died in Palo Alto, California, United State, October 5, 2011 at age 56 years. He is a Business Leader and the inventor from The United of State. He is s Co-Founder, Chairman, former CEO Apple Inc. Jobs also preveously served as executive officer of Pixar Studio. He became a member of the board of director of Walt Disney in 2006, after taking over Pixar by Disney. His name is list as executive produser in the movie Toys Story in 1995.

At the end of 1970's, Jobs with founder Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, design, develop, and market a line of personal computers first commercially Successful, The Apple II. In the early 1980s, the careers of those who first saw the commercial potential of graphical user interface is mouse-driven Xerox PARC and then encourage the manufacture of macintosh. After losing  against the decision of the board of directors in 1984. Jobs resign from Apple and founded NEXT a computer platform development company engaged in higher education and business markets. Purchase of NEXT by Apple in 1996 brought Jobs back to the company he founded together, and he served as its CEO from 1997 - 2011.

In 1986, he took over the computers graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which later became Pixar Animation Studios. He became CEO and larger shareholder as much as 50,1% to be taken over by the Walt Disney Company in 2006. Because it also Jobs became the largest shareholder in Disney a much as 7% and the board of directors Disney. After stepping down as CEO on August 24, 2011, Jobs was elected as Chairman of the board of directors of Apple.

On October 5, 2011 Steve Jobs died in California at the age of 56 years, seven years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. At the time of his death, he was widely regarded as a visionary, pioneer and genius in business, innovation, and product design, and those who succeeded in changing the face of the modern world, revolutionizing the six different company and example to all chief executives. His death was widely addressed and considered a great loss to the world by his fans around the world


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