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Apple's (AAPL) iconic founder and former CEO Steve Jobs died Wednesday, after a lengthy history of medical illnesses that included a rare form of pancreatic cancer. He was 56 years old. Apple ...
On October 5th in 2011, Apple co-founder and visionary, Steve Jobs died of complications from pancreatic cancer. Jobs lead at Apple until August 24th in 2011. Six weeks later he passed at the age ...
On October 5, 2011, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs left his legacy after creating and growing the biggest company in the world from scratch in a garage. The man who brought us the MacBook, the iPhone ...
According to Apple co-founder Wozniak, "Steve didn't ever code. He wasn't an engineer and he didn't do any original design...". [244] [245] Daniel Kottke, one of Apple's earliest employees and a college friend of Jobs, stated: "Between Woz and Jobs, Woz was the innovator, the inventor. Steve Jobs was the marketing person." [246]
On April 1, 1976, Jobs and Wozniak formed the Apple Computer Company (now called Apple Inc.) along with administrative supervisor Ronald Wayne, whose participation in the new venture was short-lived. The two decided on the name "Apple" shortly after Jobs returned from Oregon and told Wozniak about his time spent on an apple orchard there. [41]
Laurene Powell Jobs (née Powell; born November 6, 1963) [1] [2] is an American billionaire businesswoman executive and philanthropist. [3] She is the widow of Steve Jobs, who was the co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc., and she manages the Steve Jobs Trust. [4] [5] She is the founder and chairman of Emerson Collective [3] and XQ Institute. [6]
Ronald Gerald Wayne (born May 17, 1934) is an American retired electronics industry business executive. He co-founded Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) as a partnership with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs on April 1, 1976, providing administrative oversight and documentation for the new venture.
Former Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, passed two years ago today. Apple has become a battleground stock in the years following his passing. The new CEO, Tim Cook, is a more-collaborative leader than Steve ...