Jobs section: Cast of Real-Life Characters (in the order of their appearance)
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Scott Forstall
Leader of Apple’s iOS development team
Richard Williamson
Former NeXT engineer & key architect of iOS
Tim Cook
Apple CEO who succeeded Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Jobs’s handpicked biographer
Steve “Woz” Wozniak
Computer whiz & Apple co-founder
Paul Jobs
Steve Jobs’s father
Jef Raskin
Apple manager & Mac project originator
Robert (Bob) Noyce
Semiconductor pioneer & Jobs’s mentor
Alan Kay
Computer scientist at Xerox PARC
Bill Atkinson
Apple software whiz & QuickDraw creator
Larry Tesler
Computer scientist at Xerox PARC
Adele Goldberg
Computer scientist at Xerox PARC
Mike Markkula
Apple’s early financier & Jobs’s business mentor
John Couch
Head of Lisa project team at Apple
Andy Hertfeld
Mac software architect
Michael “Scotty” Scott
Apple’s first CEO
Terry Oyama
Mac industrical designer
Jerry Mancock
Mac industrial designer
Bill Gates
Microsoft founder & Apple competitor
Burrell Smith
Mac hardware architect
Laurene Powell Jobs
Wife of Steve Jobs & philanthropist
John Sculley
Former PepsiCo exec recruited as Apple CEO
Eve, Reed & Erin Jobs
Children of Steve Jobs with Laurene
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Jobs’s daughter from former relationship
Lee Clow
Iconic ad executive & collaborator of Jobs
Gil Amelio
Apple CEO in mid-1990s
Tony Fadell
Project leader of original iPod at Apple
Jony Ive
Apple chief designer & collaborator of Jobs
Phil Schiller
Apple marketing exec & key iPod team member
Jon “Ruby” Rubinstein
Apple hardware chief & key iPod team member
Vinnie Chieco
Freelance copywriter who coined iPod name
Jeff Robbin
Apple software exec, creator of iTunes
Doug Morris
Head of Universal Music in the 2000s
Roger Ames
Head of Warner Music in the early 2000s
Greg Christie
Leader of Apple’s Human Interface group
Stan Sigman
Head of Cingular Wireless in the 2000s
Imran Chaudhri
User interface designer for iPhone
Bas Ording
User interface designer for iPhone
Wendell Weeks
CEO of Corning Glass
Henri Lamiraux
Former NeXT engineer & key architect of iOS