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Nov
2
2006

Steve Jobs

Last modified: Saturday, July 17, 2010

Probably the most impressive guy on the planet...

  • Steve Jobs was booted out of apple by the board in 1985.
  • In 1986 he bought "The graphics group" which he renamed to Pixar. He purchased it for 5 million.
  • After leaving apple he also founded NeXT.
  • The internet was CREATED by Tim Berners Lee on the NeXT operating system.
  • In 1996 apple bought NeXT and used it as the basis of their OS X operating system. They bought it for 402 million.
  • In 1997 Steve started work as interim CEO back at apple.
  • In 2000 he dropped the title interim and became CEO.
  • In 2006 Disney purchased pixar for 7.4 billion.

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