"In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. "

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Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple Computer. He and Steve Wozniak founded the company in 1976, and Jobs has been a leading figure in the computer industry since then.

Apple was founded in the Jobs family garage when he was 21; his partner Steve Wozniak was 26. The team introduced the first personal computer called Apple I. In 1977, the two produced the Apple II, which was where they found their success. By 1980 Apple Computer was a publicly traded corporation, and by the end of the same year, Apple Computer released Apple III.

In 1984 Macintosh was introduced. It had a graphical user interface and was the first commercially successful computer. The success of Macintosh led Apple to abandon the Apple line and favor the Mac, which is still used to this day.

After a power struggle within Apple, Jobs left and founded another computer company, NeXT Computer. It was popular in scientific research, but never became widely used. Many innovations from NeXt did, however, appear in some of Mac's later programming such as Display PostScript, and magneto-optical devices. NeXT was purchased by Apple for $402 million in 1996, which brought Jobs back into the company he founded. He worked for Apple for several years, earning an "average" salary. He was listed in the Guinness World Records as the "Lowest Paid Chief Executive Officer."

Jobs co-founded Pixar Animation Studios in 1986. Pixar has created some of the most successful animated films of all time: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles. Pixar has won 20 Academy Awards and its films have grossed more than $3.2 billion at the worldwide box office to date. Pixar was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2006, making Jobs the largest shareholder in Disney. Jobs now serves on the Disney board of directors.

Jobs was married on March 18, 1991 to Laurene Powell. He has four daughters. In 2004 he had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in his pancreas -- a rare form of pancreatic cancer that did not require chemotherapy or radiation. During this time, Tim Cook, the head of worldwide sales and operations at Apple, took Jobs position.