Personalities # 3 - Steve Jobs

Today we will look at a dynamic personality, who is the head and founder of Apple and the one who gave us the iPad. He is of course, Steve Jobs.

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs, born February 24, 1955 is an American business magnate and inventor. He is well-known for being the co-founder and CEO of Apple. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios. In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founders and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II Series followed by Macintosh in the 1980s. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout f NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he has served as its CEO since 1997. Jobs is listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor in over 230 both awarded patents and patent applications related to a range from actual computer and portable devices to user interfaces (including touch-based), glass members, speakers, keyboards, power adapters, staircases, clasps, sleeves, lanyards and packages.