Steve+Jobs

__Steve Jobs__
== Steve Jobs is the Co-Founder of and Chief Executive Director of Apple Incorporated. He was born in San Francisco in 1955. Steve founded the Apple II series in the 1970's. He resigned and founded NeXt in 1984. In 1996 Apple bought NeXT for 429 million dollars. Since 1996 Steve has been the co-founder of Apple. ==

== When Steve was young, his father fixed cars for a living. Steve did not care about school very much until he was in fourth grade. As he grew up, he studied zen Buddhism and wanted to become a monk and at age 19 went to India to become enlightened. In 1969 Steve met his partner Steve Wozniak. Together, they created the first Apple Computer. To get started, Jobs had to sell his Volkswagen Van and Wozniak sold HP 65 calculator. Mike Markkula invested $250,000 dollars and promised them that in less than two years their company would make the Fortune 500 list. Mike was right, as of December, 1980, Steve Job's net wroth was over the 2 million mark. He was a millionare at age 25. ==

==I n 2009 Steve's estimated net wealth was 5.1 billion. As of October 2009, Steve owned 5.426 million shares of Apple and 138 million shares of Disney. Steve has been a very successful and has created computers, various ipods, keyboards, and so many more Apple products. ==





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