General Session - Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs is Chairman and CEO of Pixar, the Academy-Award-winning computer animation studios which he co-founded in 1986. Pixar's first feature film, Toy Story, was released by Walt Disney Pictures in November 1995 and became the highest domestic grossing film released that year and the third highest grossing animated film of all time.
Before Pixar, Steve co-founded Apple Computer, Inc. where he co-designed the Apple II computer, led the development and marketing of the Macintosh computer, and oversaw the growth of Apple into a two billion dollar company. Steve also co-founded NeXT Software, which was recently acquired by Apple.
Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Reagan in 1985, the Jefferson Award for Public Service in 1987, and was named Entrepreneur of the Decade in 1989 by Inc. Magazine.
Steve grew up in the apricot orchards which later became known as Silicon Valley, and still lives there with his wife and three children.