Happy Birthday, Steve! Today is Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs’ 56th 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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Happy Birthday to my wife too. I always get her something Apple for her birthday. One more thing…
Happy Birthday Steve!!!
“Stay hungry, stay foolish,” but more importantly, stay alive for MANY more years to come!!!
Happy Birthday Steve. Please keep the innovation coming 🙂
Happy birthday Steve!
Happy Birthday Mr. Jobs. May this day and every other day bring you happiness, peace and most of all a speedy recovery.
Happy Birthday Steve. We’ll see back soon.
A group of computer students from Imperial College of London set up a website specifically for posting birthday wishes for SJ. The count is currently at ~13K and comes from well wishers around the world. Go post yours: http://www.happybirthdaystevejobs.com/
Happy b-day! Thanks for everything you do. You have millions of Apple fans wishing you the best!
Happy b-day Steve!
Happy Birthday !
HB, SJ.
Thank you.
Happy Bday Steve! I hope you lead the industry for another 50 years to come…
All the well wishes and greetings for Steve said above, Ditto that!
Happy birthday Steve!
Thank you for everything you have done! Steve Jobs Forever!!
You are on my short list of heroes. God bless you!!