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Steve Jobs

American businessman and inventor who co-founded Apple Inc. and transformed technology and design.

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Who is Steve Jobs?

Steve Jobs is best known for Co-founding Apple Inc. and pioneering the personal computer revolution with innovative products like the iPhone and Mac. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Steve Jobs is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Co-founding Apple Inc. and pioneering the personal computer revolution with innovative products like the iPhone and Mac.

About Steve Jobs

A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board of directors fired him in 1985, he founded NeXT the same year and purchased Pixar in 1986, becoming its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007. Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 as CEO, where he was closely involved with the creation and promotion of many of the company's most influential products until his resignation in 2011. He attended Reed College in 1972 before withdrawing that same year. In 1974, he traveled through India, seeking enlightenment before later studying Zen Buddhism. He and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to further develop and sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. Together, the duo gained fame and wealth a year later with the production and sale of the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers. Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto in 1979, which was mouse-driven and had a graphical user interface (GUI). This led to the development of the largely unsuccessful Apple Lisa in 1983, followed by the breakthrough Macintosh 128K in 1984, the first mass-produced computer with a GUI.

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