Steve Jobs Net Worth
Famous inventor and entrepreneur Steve Jobs gained noticable wealth during his life. His net worth was approximately $8.3 billion in 2010. This visionary founded worldwide famous company Apple and later return to save it and bring back it’s glory. He also heavily invested in animation studio Pixar.
Famous Apple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak who developed personal computer called Apple I. During the time, company grew bigger and more complicated and in 1985, Jobs left the company after several quarrels with it’s board of directors. He founded another company, NeXT Inc. He convinced billionaire Ross Perot to invest in it.
In 1996, Apple bought NeXT and Jobs returned to his original company, where he soon became the new CEO. At that point, Apple was struggling to remain profitable and Jobs ordered many structural changes. Among other things, he discontinued several project that were outside the core business.
When it comes to real estate, Jobs bought old mansion called Jackling House in Woodside, California. it was built in 1925 and considered a historically valuable home but Steve order it to be demolished in 2011 in order to prepare space for a new, smaller house. The prepared construction never started as Jobs died October 5, 2011.
