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Entrepreneur Profile-Steve Jobs

Entrepreneurs, Profiles - Posted: August 10, 2009

Full Name: Steven Paul Jobs

Date of Birth: born February 24, 1955

Who is Steve Jobs?

Steve is an American businessman, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc.

Steve Created Apple with co-founder Steve Wozniak, created one of the first commercially successful personal computers in the late 1970s.

Jobs attended Cupertino Junior High School and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California,

He was soon hired there and worked with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee.

Steve graduated from high school and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1972.

He is a vegetarian.

Steve Jobs was listed as Fortune Magazine's Most Powerful Businessman of 2007.

In mid-January 2009, Steve was given a 5 month’s leave of absence from Apple to undergo a liver transplant.
According to Forbes, Steve is worth a whopping $3.4 billion

He usually wears a black long-sleeved mock turtleneck made by St. Croix, Levi's 501 blue jeans, and New Balance 991 sneakers.

Jobs married Laurene Powell, on March 18, 1991, the couple have three children. Jobs also has a daughter,
Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan.

In 2005, Steve Jobs banned all books published by John Wiley & Sons from Apple Stores in response to their publishing an unauthorized biography, iCon: Steve Jobs.

Job’s aggressive and demanding personality is been questioned by the public, he "is considered one of Silicon Valley's leading egomaniacs.

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