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Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)

He was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was CEO of Apple Inc.

He was member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company. Jobs was born in San Francisco and was adopted by the family of Paul Jobs and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California.

Jobs attended Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. He frequented after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California, and was later hired there, working with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee.

In August 2011, Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, but remained at the company as chairman of the company's board. Hours after the announcement, Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares dropped 5% in after-hour trading. The relatively small drop, when considering the importance of Jobs to Apple, was associated with the fact that Jobs' health had been in the news for several years, and he was on medical leave since January 2011.

Jobs earned only $1 a year as CEO of Apple,he held 5.426 million Apple shares, as well as 138 million shares in Disney (which he had received in exchange for Disney's acquisition of Pixar).Forbes estimated his net wealth at $8.3 billion in 2010, making him the 42nd wealthiest American.

Jobs married Laurene Powell, on March 18, 1991.

He had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his pancreas. The prognosis for pancreatic cancer is usually very poor; Jobs, however, stated that he had a rare, far less aggressive type known as islet cell neuro endocrine tumor.