Steve Jobs

Here are some things you should know

• He incorporated Apple Computer - 1977
• The company had a record-setting public stock offering - 1981
• Apple made the quickest entrance (to that time) into the Fortune 500 list of America’s top companies - 1983
• The company recruited PepsiCo, Inc., president John Sculley to be its chief executive officer (CEO) - 1983
• Jobs himself introduced the Macintosh in a brilliantly choreographed demonstration that was the centrepiece of an extraordinary publicity campaign - 1984
• Jobs acquired a controlling interest in Pixar, a computer graphics firm that had been founded as a division of Lucasfilm Ltd., the production company of Hollywood movie director George Lucas - 1986
• He eventually sold the studio to the Disney Company - 2006