The late and great Steve Jobs was one of the most popular figures in computer history. In 1976, he co-founded Apple with his friend, Steve (‘the Woz’) Wozniak. Jobs and Wozniak made a highly successful team, combining Wozniak’s engineering ability with Jobs’ ingenuity and marketing instincts.
Between them they came up with, and successfully launched, the first ready-made personal computer. Their company grew rapidly on the back of the success of their early products.
Over the last few years, he powered the Macintosh line and overseen Apple’s rival-trumping ascendancy in the digital music business through its ingenious combination of the iPod player and iTunes software.
In the pantheon of America’s greatest computer innovators, perhaps only Bill Gates can match the reputation of Steve Jobs. His amazing success at Apple has been reinforced in recent years with the performance of the animated film studio Pixar – maker of Toy Story and the astonishingly successful The Incredibles and Brave - of which he was also the Chief Executive Officer, and more recently Monsters University.
"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets." – Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs’ net worth was in the billions.