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<b style="line-height: 22.4px;">Steven Paul</b><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">"</span><b style="line-height: 22.4px;">Steve</b><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">"</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><b style="line-height: 22.4px;">Jobs</b><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">(</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_in_the_United_States" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Citizenship in the United States">American</a><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">information technology entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc." style="background: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Apple Inc.">Apple Inc.</a><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">; CEO and largest shareholder of</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Pixar">Pixar Animation Studios</a><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">;</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-jobspix_3-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#cite_note-jobspix-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">a member of</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="The Walt Disney Company">The Walt Disney Company</a><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">'s board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="NeXT">NeXT Inc.</a><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcomputer_revolution" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Microcomputer revolution">microcomputer revolution</a><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">of the 1970s, along with Apple co-founder</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Steve Wozniak">Steve Wozniak</a><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">. Shortly after his death, Jobs's official biographer,</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Isaacson" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Walter Isaacson">Walter Isaacson</a><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">, described him as a "creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing."</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-JobsBio1_2-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#cite_note-JobsBio1-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup></div>
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Jobs's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Counterculture of the 1960s">countercultural lifestyle</a> and philosophy was a product of the time and place of his upbringing. Jobs was adopted at birth in San Francisco, and raised in a hotbed of counterculture, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="San Francisco Bay Area">San Francisco Bay Area</a> during the 1960s.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#cite_note-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup> As a senior at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_High_School_(Cupertino,_California)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Homestead High School (Cupertino, California)">Homestead High School</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupertino,_California" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cupertino, California">Cupertino, California</a>, his two closest friends were the older engineering student (and Homestead High alumnus) Wozniak and his girlfriend, the artistically inclined and countercultural Homestead High junior <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrisann_Brennan" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Chrisann Brennan">Chrisann Brennan</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-The_Steve_Jobs_Nobody_Knew_5-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#cite_note-The_Steve_Jobs_Nobody_Knew-5" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup> Jobs and Wozniak bonded over their mutual fascination with Jobs's musical idol <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a>, discussing his lyrics and collecting bootleg reel-to-reel tapes of Dylan's concerts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rollingstone.com_6-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#cite_note-rollingstone.com-6" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a></sup> Jobs later dated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Baez" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Joan Baez">Joan Baez</a> who notably had a prior relationship with Dylan.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rollingstone.com_6-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#cite_note-rollingstone.com-6" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a></sup> Jobs briefly attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_College" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Reed College">Reed College</a> in 1972 before dropping out.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-The_Steve_Jobs_Nobody_Knew_5-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#cite_note-The_Steve_Jobs_Nobody_Knew-5" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup> He then <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie_trail" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hippie trail">decided to travel through India</a> in 1974 and to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_the_West#Emerging_mainstream_western_Buddhism" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Buddhism in the West">study Zen Buddhism</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#cite_note-7" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a></sup> Jobs's declassified FBI report says an acquaintance knew that Jobs used illegal drugs in college including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cannabis (drug)">marijuana</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lysergic acid diethylamide">LSD</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#cite_note-8" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a></sup> Jobs told a reporter once that taking LSD was “one of the two or three most important things” he did in his life.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#cite_note-9" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a></sup></div>
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Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Apple I">Apple I</a> personal computer. The duo gained fame and wealth a year later for the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Apple II">Apple II</a>, one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers. In 1979, after a tour of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="PARC (company)">Xerox PARC</a>, Jobs saw the commercial potential of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Xerox Alto">Xerox Alto</a>, which was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Computer mouse">mouse</a>-driven and had a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Graphical user interface">graphical user interface</a> (GUI). This led to development of the unsuccessful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Apple Lisa">Apple Lisa</a> in 1983, followed by the very successful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Macintosh 128K">Macintosh</a> in 1984. In addition to being the first mass-produced computer with a GUI, the Macintosh instigated the sudden rise of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_publishing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Desktop publishing">desktop publishing</a> industry in 1985 with the addition of the Apple <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="LaserWriter">LaserWriter</a>, the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_printing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Laser printing">laser printer</a> to feature <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Vector graphics">vector graphics</a>. Following a long power struggle, Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-swaine4_10-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#cite_note-swaine4-10" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a></sup></div>
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After leaving Apple, Jobs <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT#Original_NeXT_Team" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="NeXT">took a few of its members with him</a> to found NeXT, a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_platform" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Computer platform">computer platform</a> development company specializing in state-of-the-art computers for higher-education and business markets. In addition, Jobs helped to initiate the development of the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_effects" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Visual effects">visual effects</a> industry when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar#Early_history" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Pixar">he funded the spinout of the computer graphics division</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="George Lucas">George Lucas</a>'s company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasfilm" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lucasfilm">Lucasfilm</a> in 1986.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Pixar_Founding_Documents_11-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#cite_note-Pixar_Founding_Documents-11" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a></sup> The new company, Pixar, would eventually produce the first fully <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_animation" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Computer animation">computer-animated</a> film, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Toy Story">Toy Story</a></i>—an event made possible in part because of Jobs's financial support.</div>
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In 1997, Apple purchased NeXT, allowing Jobs to become the former's CEO once again. He would return the company, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, back to profitability. Beginning in 1997 with the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Think different">Think different</a>" advertising campaign, Jobs worked closely with designer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Ive" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jonathan Ive">Jonathan Ive</a> to develop a line of products that would have larger cultural ramifications: the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="IMac">iMac</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="ITunes">iTunes</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Store" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Apple Store">Apple Stores</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="IPod">iPod</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Store" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="ITunes Store">iTunes Store</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="IPhone">iPhone</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="App Store (iOS)">App Store</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="IPad">iPad</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Mac OS">Mac OS</a> was also revamped into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="OS X">Mac OS X</a>, based on NeXT's<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="NeXTSTEP">NeXTSTEP</a> platform.</div>
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Jobs was diagnosed with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreatic_neuroendocrine_tumor" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor">pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor</a> in 2003 and died of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_arrest" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Respiratory arrest">respiratory arrest</a> related to the tumor on October </div>
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