GIL AMELIO. Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back.
BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh.
CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter Lisa.
LISA BRENNAN-JOBS. Daughter of Jobs and Chrisann Brennan, born in 1978; became a writer in New York City.
NOLAN BUSHNELL. Founder of Atari and entrepreneurial role model for Jobs.
BILL CAMPBELL. Apple marketing chief during Jobs’s first stint at Apple and board member and confidant after Jobs’s return in 1997.
EDWIN CATMULL. A cofounder of Pixar and later a Disney executive.
KOBUN CHINO. A Soōtoō Zen master in California who became Jobs’s spiritual teacher.
LEE CLOW. Advertising wizard who created Apple’s “1984” ad and worked with Jobs for three decades.
DEBORAH “DEBI” COLEMAN. Early Mac team manager who took over Apple manufacturing.
TIM COOK. Steady, calm, chief operating officer hired by Jobs in 1998; replaced Jobs as Apple CEO in August 2011.
EDDY CUE. Chief of Internet services at Apple, Jobs’s wingman in dealing with content companies.
ANDREA “ANDY” CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at
Regis McKenna’s firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years.
MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving Disney CEO who made the Pixar deal, then clashed with Jobs.
LARRY ELLISON. CEO of Oracle and personal friend of Jobs.
TONY FADELL. Punky engineer brought to Apple in 2001 to develop the iPod.
SCOTT FORSTALL. Chief of Apple’s mobile device software.
ROBERT FRIEDLAND. Reed student, proprietor of an apple farm commune, and spiritual seeker who influenced Jobs, then went on to run a mining company.
JEAN-LOUIS GASSÉE. Apple’s manager in France, took over the Macintosh division when Jobs was ousted in 1985.
BILL GATES. The other computer wunderkind born in 1955.
ANDY HERTZFELD. Playful, friendly software engineer and Jobs’s pal on the original Mac team.
JOANNA HOFFMAN. Original Mac team member with the spirit to stand up to Jobs.
ELIZABETH HOLMES. Daniel Kottke’s girlfriend at Reed and early Apple employee.
ROD HOLT. Chain-smoking Marxist hired by Jobs in 1976 to be the electrical engineer on the Apple II.
ROBERT IGER. Succeeded Eisner as Disney CEO in 2005.
JONATHAN “JONY” IVE. Chief designer at Apple, became Jobs’s partner and confidant.
ABDULFATTAH “JOHN” JANDALI. Syrian-born graduate student in Wisconsin who became biological father of Jobs and Mona Simpson, later a food and beverage manager at the Boomtown casino near Reno.
CLARA HAGOPIAN JOBS. Daughter of Armenian immigrants, married Paul Jobs in 1946; they adopted
Steve soon after his birth in 1955.
ERIN JOBS. Middle child of Laurene Powell and Steve Jobs.
EVE JOBS. Youngest child of Laurene and Steve.
PATTY JOBS. Adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs two years after they adopted Steve.
PAUL REINHOLD JOBS. Wisconsin-born Coast Guard seaman who, with his wife, Clara, adopted Steve in 1955.
REED JOBS. Oldest child of Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell.
RON JOHNSON. Hired by Jobs in 2000 to develop Apple’s stores.
JEFFREY KATZENBERG. Head of Disney Studios, clashed with Eisner and resigned in 1994 to cofound DreamWorks SKG.
DANIEL KOTTKE. Jobs’s closest friend at Reed, fellow pilgrim to India, early Apple employee.
JOHN LASSETER. Cofounder and creative force at Pixar.
DAN’L LEWIN. Marketing exec with Jobs at Apple and then NeXT.
