Business Endeavors
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple out of Jobs' room and garage. They developed the Apple-1 and sold the for 500 dollars each and about 200 were ever produced. Eventually after years of making computers Apple was struggling as a brand with too many competitors, Apples line of computers could not compete, with Apples Macintosh losing to the IBM Pc. Jobs was responsible for the failure of Macintosh and a plan leaked where Jobs wanted all the power in Apple so he was forced to resign. After Jobs' resignation from apple in 1985 he founded NeXT computers. Later after NeXT not being super successful, it was sold to Apple for 427 million dollars. Jobs then again was the CEO of Apple where he would develop many successful products such as the iPad, iPhone, iTunes, etc. Jobs also funded and became the CEO of Pixar and was credited as the executive producer of Toy Story. Jobs was also credited as ending Disney's strain on the Animation industry.
Net Worth
- Jobs' net worth at death was 10.2 billion
- 8 billion dollars of Jobs' net worth came from Disney Stocks
- Jobs also owned 20% of apple which he sold for a gain of 100 million