- CEO of Pixar Animation Studios (1986)
- Has a daughter, Lisa, from a previous relationship. She is the namesake of Apple's computer, the Lisa.
- When Apple Computer appointed its first Board of Directors, they insisted that all employees wear name badges with a number indicating the order in which they were hired. They assigned Steve Wozniak, who did all the engineering of the highly successful Apple II computer, the title Employee No. 1. Steve Jobs was officially Employee No. 2. He protested, but the board refused to change the badge assignments. Jobs offered a compromise: He would be Employee No. 0, since 0 comes before 1 on the mathematical model known as a number line.
- CEO of Pixar Animation Studios - the creators of Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), and Finding Nemo (2003) - as well as various shorts, including Oscar-winning Tin Toy (1988), Geri's Game (1997), and For the Birds (2000).
- In Forbes Magazine's listing of the 400 Richest Americans in 2005, Steve Jobs came in at number 67 with a total worth of $3.3 Billion.
- Biological son of immigrants to the U.S., Syrian Abdul Fattah Jandali and German-Swiss Joanne Carol Schieble. He was placed for adoption at a very early age, where he was adopted by an Armenian-American couple, Paul and Clara Jobs, who raised him. As a result of his upbringing, Jobs was fluent in the Armenian language.
- CEO of Apple Computer Inc. (1997)
- Purchased the computer graphics division of LucasFilm from George Lucas. This was later renamed Pixar.
- Has a child from a relationship he had when he was 23 with a woman whom he didn't marry. The daughter was named Lisa N. Brennan Jobs, born on 17 May 1978.
- Always counted Edwin H. Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera, as one of his all-time entrepreneurial heroes. He based many of his own Apple product presentational styles on Land's.
- He was a pescetarian, one whose diet includes fish but no other meat.
- July 2004: he had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his pancreas
- Was friends with President Bill Clinton, and allowed him to stay at his California mansion whenever Clinton visited his daughter Chelsea Clinton, then a student at Stanford University. Clinton in turn hosted Jobs as a guest of the Lincoln Bedroom.
- Officially dropped the word "interim" from his title at Apple Computer sometime in the autumn of 1999.
- Adopted from infancy by Mountain View, California, couple, Paul and Clara Jobs. He was machinist for a laser manufacturer; she was an accountant.
- Received a liver transplant in April 2009.
- Gave the commencement address to the graduating class of at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
- He didn't use deodorant or shower regularly.
- Attended Reed College (Portland, Oregon), but dropped out after one semester.
- As a youth he lived at 2066 Crist Drive in Los Altos (CA), where he started his Apple company in the attached family garage with pal Steve Wozniak.
- (Biological) brother of Mona Simpson.
- Ranked #1 on Premiere's 2004 annual Power 100 List with Pixar co-head John Lasseter. Had ranked #23 in 2003.
- He followed a strict Vegan diet and often ate only one or two kinds of fruits such as Apples or pears for weeks at a time.
- Ranked #23 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List with Pixar partner John Lasseter. They had ranked #31 in 2002.
- Posthumously awarded the Grammy Trustees Award at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012. The Trustees Award is awarded to "individuals who, during their careers in music, have made significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording".
- Co-founded Apple Computer Inc. in 1977 with Steve Wozniak. Was later ousted and then brought back as interim CEO in 1997. His new reign has been controversial: bringing Apple back to profitability (and visibility), yet disappointing many for discontinuing the Newton MessagePad hand-held device.
- Graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, in 1972.
- Merited the #2 position in "The Vanity Fair 100" magazine's 16th annual ranking of the most influential people of the Information Age. (2010)
- Often insisted on using marketing language that was intentionally grammatically incorrect. For example, he usually referred to Apple products without the definite article "the" to emphasis uniqueness. Another example was Apple's slogan in the late 1990s "Think different", in which he stated that "different" was meant to be a noun and sound colloquial.
- His #1 rival is Bill Gates.
- Made the cover of TIME magazine 8 times: February 1982, August 1997, October 1999, January 2002, October 2005, April 2007 (group shot), April 2010, October 2011 (special issue).
- The black-and-white headshot of Jobs that appeared on the jacket of his biographer Walter Isaacson's book "Steve Jobs" (2011) was taken by Scottish celebrity photographer Albert Watson.
- Ranked #3 on Premiere's 2005 Power 50 List with Pixar co-head John Lasseter. They had ranked #1 in 2004.
- Invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Executives Branch) in 2005.
- (May 10, 2010) Merited a position in Time magazine's "The 100 Most Influential People in the World" ("Thinkers" category) with an homage contributed by Jeff Koons.
- Had intended to volunteer his service in designing the ad campaign for Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign.
- Changed his daughter Lisa's last name from Brennan to Brennan-Jobs by altering her birth certificate.
- Ranked #1 on Premiere's 2006 "Power 50" list with Pixar co-head John Lasseter. They had ranked #3 in 2005 and #1 in 2004.
- At the Macworld convention on January 9th, 2007, he announced three new products: a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough internet connector. After a moment of letting the audience speculate, he announced that all three products are actually one, which turned out to be the iPhone.
- [7 July 2022] Posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House.
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