CEO of Apple

I was helping my son do his research for a Business Class Presentation for two Computer Companies - Apple and Dell, and was surprised at how interesting I found the CEO (and co-founder) of Apple Computer, Steve Jobs. Here are some quick bio facts we discovered...

- 51-year old Steve Jobs has been CEO of Apple since 1997. Jobs graduated from high school and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but he dropped out after only one semester. When speaking at the Stanford University graduation ceremony in 2005, Jobs told the graduates that, after dropping out, he remained at Reed auditing classes, including one in calligraphy. "If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts", he said.
- After leaving Apple in 1985, Jobs founded another computer company, NeXT Computer, considered to have played a large role in catalyzing a little event called the World Wide Web since the developer who wrote the code for the WWW did so on a NeXT workstation.
- In 1986 Jobs bought a little company called The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) for 5 million dollars. In January of this year, Jobs sold Pixar to Disney in an all-stock transaction for 7.4 BILLION dollars making him the largest single shareholder of Disney stock.
- Jobs has worked at Apple for several years with an annual salary of $1 (NO JOKE), and this has earned him a listing in Guinness World Records as the "Lowest Paid CEO.” His current salary at Apple officially remains $1 per year.

Now, that's interesting - and you can click the title link to read more about him at wikipedia.org.