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Steve Jobs birth
Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco California on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali -
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Steve Jobs Life
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Steve Jobs was placed for adoption
Steven was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs after he was placed up for adoption -
Working with Atari
In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari -
The birth of Apple computers
In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computers. The duo started in the Jobs family garage -
Apple Company publically traded
In 1980, Apple Computer became a publically traded company with a market value of $1.2 billion on the very first day of trading with a pc as $666.66 each andheir first model, the Apple I, earned them $774,000 -
The Macintosh
In 1984 Apple released the Macintosh, marketing the computer as a piece of a counter culture lifestyle: romantic, youthful, creative -
Jobs resign as CEO
In 1985, Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO to begin a new hardware and software company called NeXT, Inc -
Pixar Animation
The following year Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios -
Steve Jobs and Laurene (Jobs) Powell
In the early 1990s, Jobs met Laurene Powell at Stanford business school, where Powell was an MBA student. They married on March 18, 1991, and lived together in Palo Alto, California, with their three children. -
Pancreatic Cancer
In 2003, Jobs discovered he had a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare but operable form of pancreatic cancer. -
Successful Surgery
In 2004, he had a successful surgery to remove the pancreatic tumor. -
Largest Shareholder
Walt Disney in 2006, made Steve Jobs Disney's largest shareholder. -
Apple's most Impressive Statistics to Date
In 2007, Apple's quarterly reports were the company's most impressive statistics to date. -
iTunes Music Retailer
In 2008, iTunes became the second biggest music retailer in America-second only to Wal-Mart. Half of Apple's current revenue comes from iTunes and iPod sales, with 200 million iPods sold and six billion songs downloaded -
Death of Steve Jobs
On October 5, 2011, Apple Inc. announced that co-founder Steve Jobs had died. He was 56 years old at the time of his death.
