Business Leaders: Steve Jobs

time. Admirers celebrated his farsighted thinking and his unwavering

devotion to making great products. Critics pointed to his notoriously

prickly personality and hard-nosed business tactics. Yet no one could

deny his role as a founding father of the Digital Revolution. From

the first Apple computer in 1976, to the iPad nearly thirty-five years

later, Steve Jobs remained a driving force in electronic innovation. The

unbridled success of the iPhone and iPad were tempered, however, by

his private battle with cancer, an agonizing struggle that he finally lost

in November 2011. Millions of people learned of his untimely death

using the very devices he had helped invent. It was a fitting epitaph for

a man dedicated to integrating technology into everyday life.