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. Perhaps unsurprisingly for a man of his stature and influence, Steve Jobs was a billionaire many times over. [143] In March 1998, to concentrate Apple's efforts on returning to profitability, Jobs terminated several projects, such as Newton, Cyberdog, and OpenDoc. [72] The two decided on the name "Apple" after Jobs returned from the All One Farm commune in Oregon and told Wozniak about his time in the farm's apple orchard. She would discover later that during this time, Jobs was preparing to unveil a new kind of computer that he wanted to give a female name (his first choice was Claire after St. Clare). Inside Steve Jobs' Death And How He Could Have Been Saved Their most recent products were complete failures, and the company's stock was hitting all-time lows. | Tom Munnecke/Getty Images . He was worth $1 million in 1978. He was smart enough to be a nerd, but wasn't nerdy. [134] Floyd Norman, of Pixar, described Jobs as a "mature, mellow individual who never interfered with the creative process of the filmmakers. Parents. Neither Jobs nor Fernandez (whose father was a lawyer) came from engineering households and thus decided to enroll in John McCollum's Electronics I class. In total, the sale netted him around $100million after taxes. I would say something to him and he would immediately shoot it down because he could think faster than I could. His contributions to most of his patents were to "the look and feel of the product". If we needed a cabinet, he would build it. [199][200][201] Jobs's prognosis was described as "excellent". As he died soon afterwards, Jobs was given the letter which stated that "his mother had been an unmarried graduate student from Wisconsin named Joanne Schieble. The Macintosh introduced the desktop publishing industry in 1985 with the addition of the Apple LaserWriter, the first laser printer to feature vector graphics. Eventually, 200 units were produced.[78]. I'm 32. Steve Jobs was best known as the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc., a technological powerhouse. Unfortunately the good times between Jobs and Sculley did not last. . Marriage. Jobs, meanwhile, admired his father's craftsmanship "because he knew how to build anything.