FACTBOX: Quick facts about Apple CEO Steve Jobs
(Reuters) - Apple Inc co-founder and Chief Executive Steve Jobs on Wednesday said that he will go on medical leave until the end of June. He said his medical issues are "more complex" than he first thought.
SOME QUICK FACTS ABOUT STEVE JOBS:
-- Jobs, 53, was adopted and raised in Mountain View, California, now in the heart of Silicon Valley.
-- Jobs helped usher in the age of personal computers in the late 1970s, when he co-founded Apple with fellow electronics enthusiast Steve Wozniak. The pair worked out of Jobs' family garage.
-- Worked for the game company Atari before founding Apple in 1976.
-- He left Apple in 1985 when he lost a power struggle and returned to the company a dozen years later. Jobs has been Apple CEO since.
-- Co-founded Pixar Animation Studios in 1986, which has spawned movie hits "Toy Story," "Finding Nemo," and "The Incredibles." Pixar merged in 2006 with the Walt Disney Company. Jobs serves on the Disney board of directors.
-- He is married and has three children.
-- In 2004, he had surgery for a rare form of pancreatic cancer, known as an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which represents about 1 percent of the total cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed each year.
(Reporting by Bernie Woodall, editing by Leslie Gevirtz)
