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Steve Jobs

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The Resume

    (February 24, 1955-October 5, 2011)
    Co-founded of Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak (1976)
    Birth Name is Steve Paul
    Adopted shortly after birth
    Chairman and CEO of Pixar (computer animation for 'Toy Story,' 'Bug's Life,' 'Toy Story 2' and 'Monsters Inc')
    Resigned as CEO of Apple (August 24, 2011)

Why he might be annoying:

    He dropped out of Reed College after one semester.
    He stole the idea of GUI (Graphic User Interface) from Xerox.
    In an effort to share the GUI ideas with Bill Gates, Gates ripped him off and stole GUI.
    He created competition among workers and virtually led to some nervous breakdowns.
    He ran Apple using cult-like motivation techniques.
    He left Apple in 1985 to produce the NeXT, a $10,000 computer that had little public appeal.
    He is a vegetarian.
    In the '70s, he helped sell Steve Wozniak's illegal blue box which allowed users to make phone calls for free.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He made a million dollars when he was twenty-five.
    He was adopted.
    He rejected the corporate way of doing business.
    He turned his Apple corporation into a work campus where workers could work barefoot, sleep and put in the hours they wanted.
    Although an electronic genius, he admits the Steve Wozniak was the real technical brain behind the Apple computer.
    Jobs was the marketing genius that promoted Apple.
    After several years of health issues, he took a medical leave of absence from Apple (January 17, 2011).

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 45 Votes: 31.11% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 26 Votes: 38.46% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 117 Votes: 49.57% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 80 Votes: 41.25% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 105 Votes: 49.52% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 60 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 134 Votes: 54.48% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 27 Votes: 74.07% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 58 Votes: 44.83% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 86 Votes: 39.53% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 163 Votes: 51.53% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 877 Votes: 75.83% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 212 Votes: 49.06% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 174 Votes: 41.95% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 94 Votes: 60.64% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 141 Votes: 54.61% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 162 Votes: 51.85% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 302 Votes: 60.26% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 454 Votes: 63.66% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 822 Votes: 61.92% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 448327 Votes: 34.92% Annoying
    In 2001, Out of 20179 Votes: 26.46% Annoying