Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs (pronounced {{IPA|/d?o?bz/}}) (born February 24, 1955) is the CEO of Apple Computer and a leading figure in the computer industry. As co-founder (with Steve Wozniak) of Apple in 1976, he helped popularize the concept of the home computer with the Apple II. Later, he was one of the first to see the commercial potential of the GUI and mouse developed at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, and saw that these technologies were incorporated into the Apple Macintosh. Today as the CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs is known to be the man behind the recovery of Apple Computer, especially through an idea he pushed for, the iPod. Jobs is also chairman and CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, a leading producer of computer-animated feature films.

Personal life

Jobs married Laurene Powell on March 18 1991 and has three children with her. He also has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, by Chris Brennan, a woman he did not marry.

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March 18 - 1991

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In "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs" author Alan Deutschman reports that Jobs once dated Joan Baez. Deutschman quotes Elizabeth Holmes, a friend of Jobs from his time at Reed College, as saying she "believed that Steve became the lover of Joan Baez in large measure because Baez had been the lover of (Bob) Dylan."

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In iCon Steve Jobs by Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon, the authors suggest that Jobs might have married Baez if not for the fact that her age at the time (41) could have cancelled out the possibility of having children.

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Jobs is a pescetarian (not a vegetarian or vegan as is often claimed) ? although he does not eat meat, he reportedly eats fish from time to time.

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Pescetarian - Vegetarian - Vegan

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In 1982, Jobs bought an apartment in the San Remo, where Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, daughter of Rita Hayworth, also had an apartment. It was a New York apartment building with a politically progressive reputation. With the help of I.M. Pei, Jobs spent years renovating his apartment in the the top two floors of the building's north tower, only to sell it almost two decades later to U2 frontman Bono. Jobs had never moved in.

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1982 - The San Remo - Yasmin Aga Khan - Rita Hayworth - I.M. Pei - Bono

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In 1984 Jobs purchased a 17,000 square foot, 14 bedroom, Spanish Colonial mansion, designed by George Washington Smith in Woodside, California. Although Jobs lived in the mansion for ten years, reportedly in an almost unfurnished state, and let Bill Clinton use it in 1998 while his daughter was studying nearby, the mansion was allowed to fall into a state of disrepair. Planning to demolish the house and build a smaller home on the property, he met complaints from local preservationists over his plans. In June 2004, the Woodside Town Council gave Jobs approval to demolish the mansion, on the condition that he advertise the property for a year to see if someone would move it to another location and restore it. A number of people showed interest, including attorney Richard Pivnicka, who has experience restoring old property. http://www.friendsofthejacklinghouse.org/

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1984 - George Washington Smith - Woodside, California - Bill Clinton - 1998 - 2004

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On July 31 2004 Jobs underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in his pancreas. He had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer, called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which did not require chemotherapy or radiation therapy. During his absence, Tim Cook, head of worldwide sales and operations at Apple, ran the company.

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July 31 - 2004 - Tumor - Pancreas - Pancreatic cancer - Chemotherapy - Radiation therapy

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In 2005, Steve Jobs banned all books published by Wiley from Apple retail stores in response to their publishing an unauthorized biography, iCon Steve Jobs by Jeffrey Young and William L. Simon.

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2005 - Wiley - ICon Steve Jobs

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