Steve Jobs
Co-founder and CEO, Apple
Apple twice, NeXT, Pixar, and the phone
Rating
99Impact score
Domains
Personal computingProduct designConsumer devices
Scouting report
Co-founded Apple in 1976, was forced out in 1985, founded NeXT, bought Pixar, and returned in 1997 to a company close to insolvency. What came back with him mattered technically as well as commercially: NeXTSTEP became macOS and iOS, putting a BSD-derived Unix under hundreds of millions of consumer machines, and Apple’s KHTML fork became WebKit. The iPhone reset what a computer is.
Curator’s note
Ran the most valuable company on earth on taste, and got away with it.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Steve Jobs by MetalGearLiquid, based on File:Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg made by Matt Yohe, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sources
- 01Steve Jobs en.wikipedia.org
- 02WebKit en.wikipedia.org
- 03NeXTSTEP en.wikipedia.org