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Jobs family moves from San Francisco to Mountain view when Steve was just 5 years old
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Graduated from high school
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In 1974, Jobs took a job as a technician at Atari, Inc. in Los Gatos, California.
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Jobs dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes.
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He traveled to India in mid-1974 to visit Neem Karoli Baba with a college friend in search of spiritual enlightment.
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In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple computer in the garage of Jobs's parents in order to sell it.
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In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak formed their own business, which they named “Apple Computer Company” in remembrance of a happy summer Jobs had spent picking apples.
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In 1978, Apple recruited Mike Scott from National Semiconductor to serve as CEO for what turned out to be several turbulent years.
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In 1983, Jobs lured John Sculley away from Pepsi-Cola to serve as Apple's CEO, asking, "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?"
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Jobs resigns from Apple
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Jobs founded NeXT Computer in 1985, with $7 million.
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In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for the price of $10 million, $5 million of which was given to the company as capital.
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In 1996, Apple announced that it would buy NeXT for $427 million. The deal was finalized in late 1996, bringing Jobs back to the company he co-founded.
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