# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-jobs
# Generated: 2026-09-01T01:20:38.408Z

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name: "Steve Jobs"
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description: "He returned Apple from near-bankruptcy to cultural dominance by wedding minimalist design to mass desire — the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad didn't just sell, they rewired how people related to machines."
tagline: "American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)"
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birthDate: "1955-02-24"
deathDate: "2011-10-05"
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  country:  15
  category: 4
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in San Francisco in 1955 and adopted shortly after, Jobs attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out, then traveled through India in 1974 seeking enlightenment. He co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976; the Apple II made them both famous and wealthy a year later as one of the first mass-produced microcomputers. After seeing the mouse-driven Xerox Alto in 1979, Jobs pushed for the Macintosh, released in 1984 as the first mass-produced computer with a graphical interface, launching desktop publishing with the LaserWriter in 1985. Fired by Apple's board that same year after a power struggle with CEO John Sculley, he founded NeXT and bought Pixar in 1986, which produced Toy Story in 1995 and became a leading animation studio. Apple acquired NeXT in 1997, bringing Jobs back as CEO to rescue the failing company; working with designer Jony Ive, he introduced the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad over the next decade. Diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003, he resigned in 2011 and died of respiratory arrest that October, holding over 450 patents.