Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs (San Francisco, California, February 24, 1955 - Palo Alto, California, October 5, 2011), better known as Steve Jobs was an entrepreneur and business tycoon in the computer industry and the entertainment industry U.S.. He was co-founder and CEO of Apple subsections 12 and maximum individual shareholder of The Walt Disney Company

I think Apple in 1976 along with a boyhood friend Steve Wozniak in his garage . Buoyed by the success of the Apple II Jobs gained a high public profile , with cover of Time in 1982. It had 26 and already a millionaire thanks to the successful IPO of the company at the end of last year. The 80s marked the entry of strong competitors in the market for personal computers , which led to the first business difficulties . His reaction was to innovate , or rather implement: in early 1984 the company launched the Macintosh 128K , which was the first personal computer that was successfully commercialized that used a graphical user interface (GUI ) and mouse instead of the line commands. After having problems with the leadership of the company he founded , Jobs renunció. then sold all his shares, except one. That same year he received the National Medal of Technology by President Ronald Reagan , closing with this recognition this first step as an entrepreneur . He returned in 1997 to the company, which was in serious financial difficulties , and was its executive director until 24 August That summer Apple surpassed Exxon as the company with the largest capitalization of the world.

During the 90s it became a subsidiary acquired Lucasfilm in Pixar , which revolutionized the animation industry with the release of Toy Story. The integration of this company Disney, who was the provider , would make Jobs the largest individual shareholder of the entertainment giant . In the year of his death, his fortune was valued at 8,300 million dollars and was ranked 110 on the list of great fortunes of Forbes magazine .

In his second stint at Apple, also changed the business model of the music industry : approved the launch of the iPod in 2001, and in 2003 the online music store iTunes, that in seven years it sold more than 10,000 million songs and dominated completely the online music business , at a price of $ 0.99 per downloaded song. Already in 2009 could grab 25 percent of music sales in the United States, and is the largest music store sales volume of patenting historia.Según U.S. 317 Jobs patents listed name Apple .

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