Happy Birthday, Steve! Today is Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs’ 55th birthday. Jobs was born on February 24, 1955.
Steve Jobs was a college dropout when he teamed up with Steve Wozniak in 1976 to sell personal computers assembled in Jobs’ garage. That was the beginning of Apple, which revolutionized the computing industry and made Jobs a multimillionaire before he was 30 years old. He was forced out of the company in 1985 and started the NeXT Corporation, but returned to his old company in 1996 when Apple bought NeXT. Jobs soon became Apple’s chief executive officer and sparked a resurgence in the company with products like the colorful iMac computer, [Mac OS X, the iPod, and the iPhone]. Jobs was also the CEO of Pixar, the animation company responsible for movies like Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. Pixar was purchased by the Walt Disney Company in 2006 for $7.4 billion in stock; the deal made Jobs the largest individual shareholder of Disney stock.
Some sources list Los Altos, California as Jobs’s place of birth. However, in a 1995 oral history interview with The Smithsonian, Jobs said, “I was born in San Francisco, California, USA, planet Earth, February 24, 1955.” Jobs was given up for adoption after birth and raised by his adoptive parents in Silicon Valley… His biological sister is novelist Mona Simpson, author of “Anywhere But Here.”
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Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address:
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Happy birthday Steve keep up the great work
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Props Steve!!
There was a time it didn’t look like he’d make 55 with his health concerns, but yet another remarkable come-back! Have a very happy birthday, Steve, no matter what Michael Dell might think about you
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Happy B Day Steve! Despite going up against a monopoly, you’re leadership has brought Apple to the forefront and record breaking profitability.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVE! I am also turning 55 this year and it give me a opportunity to really see the changes you have made to the world we live in.
• I used a transistor radio on my paper route not a iPod
• There were no PCs when I was a kid or even in college
• I typed my school papers on a Smith Corona typewriter
• I learned to program using a paper feed into a modem sent to a main frame computer somewhere
• I put an 8 track in my first car (nothing was digitized)
• etc.
You helped change this for my kids and grand kids. THANKS!
Happy B’day S.Jobs!!!
Jersey_Trader
I used to fix those Smith-Corona typewriters. My early programing was on a teletype machine. Glad I moved on.
Happy Birthday Steve… AND MANY MANY MANY MORE!!!
History will show one day that – Steve was the game changer..
Happy Birthday Mr. Jobs, and best wishes for many, many more!!
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Happy Birthday Mr. Jobs. Happy Birthday Mark, (our son, risk-taker too).
Many Happy returns !
There is much, MUCH love for you here uncle Steve! Here is to your absolutely authentic and visionary you being you, unapologetically, for a few more decades!
Cheers, and Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Steve.
Thank you for changing the world.
Warm Birthday Wishes and good health to you Mr.Jobs.
Happy Birthday Steve. Keep well and making great products.
Jersey Trader, so, you had an 8 track player in your car? Perhaps not quite old enough to remember that, for a short time before 8 tracks, were 4 track players? Among other things, the 4 track cartridges had a hole in the bottom whereas the later 8 tracks did not. Of course, I’ve just seen those in museums…
His biological sister is novelist Mona Simpson, author of “Anywhere But Here.”
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Biological sister is a novelist??? Interesting… Anyone, know anything about her??
May you have another 55 beyond today’s birthday, the world needs you for a VERY long time. Many blessings!
Would would Micro$oft have to sell/copy if it wasn’t for you? We’d still be typing command lines with punch cards if you’d never been born.
I listened to that commencement address again – powerful words. I didn’t know much about Steve Jobs when I bought my first Mac, but over time I got the impression that he was a great man. That address affirms my belief.
Happy Birthday Steve.
Happy Birthday, Kid. May you be happy and healthy for many years – even past MY current age!
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Jobs, and a job well done!! May you stay CEO of Apple for as long as it takes…
In the words of a revered man:
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The rebels. The troublemakers. The ones who see things differently. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Happy Birthday steve jobs
Happy Birthday Steve. And stay healthy!!!!!!
OH NO….Steve Jobs is going to Retire in 10 years! Apple cannot continue without him… Start Dragging Apple stock down NOW!!
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seriously… Happy Birthday Steve.. May you remain CEO as long as it takes!
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Steve is a collage dropout and he is filthy rich.
That’s what I did wrong. I actually went back and got a second degree. No wonder I’m just comfortably well off.