Designer Jony Ive, best known for his work on everything from the iMac to the iPhone, wanted to quit Apple before Steve Jobs returned as CEO.

Instead, he stuck around at the tech company for nearly three decades and revolutionized consumer electronics. Now, he’s looking to do the same with AI.

In May, OpenAI acquired Ive’s startup and he is now partnering with CEO Sam Altman to make AI-first devices. Here is a look back at how he became one of the most well known tech designers in the world, with the help of a Silicon Valley icon.

Ive joined Apple in 1992 after he’d graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic, now Northumbria University, in the U.K. and had launched his career at London-based design firm Tangerine, according to the biography Steve Jobs , by Walter Isaacson. After Tange

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