The founder of "Apple" - Steven Paul (Steve) Jobs

The founder of "Apple" - Steven Paul (Steve) Jobs - an American entrepreneur, industrial designer and inventor of the era of information technology was born on February 24, 1955 in California, USA. One of the founders, chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Apple Corporation. He is one of the founders and general director of the Pixar film studio. 

In the late 1970s, together with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, they created one of the personal computers and named it "Apple II". "Apple" product, created by the initiative of Steven Jobs, has become a brand. Later, Stephen Jobs created the mouse-controlled Apple Lisa computer, and a year later, the Macintosh computer as we know it, the Mac.

After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, which developed a computer platform for universities and businesses. In 1986, he bought the Lucasfilm studio and renamed it Pixar. In 2006, the studio was acquired by The Walt Disney Company, Pixar, making Jobs the largest private shareholder and a member of Disney's board of directors.

In 1997, Steven Jobs returned to Apple. Apple pulled the company out of bankruptcy. Over the next decade, Jobs developed the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, as well as the Apple Store, iTunes Store, App Store, and iBookstore. Apple became the world's most valuable public company in 2011.