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Steven P. Jobs was born in San Francisco, California
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Sculley called a board meeting to resolve the matter. Apple's board of directors sided with Sculley and removed Jobs from his managerial duties as head of the Macintosh division
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Designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series.
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Went to reed college but dropped out a year later
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Apple recruited Miek Scott from National semiconductor to serve as ceo for what turend out to be sveral turbent years
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Apple aried a super bowl commerical tiled '1984"
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Jobs lured Jhon Sculley away from pepsi-cola to serve as Apple's CEO
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after losing power strugglewith board of directors, jobs resigned from Apple
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After leaving Apple, Jobs founded NeXT Computer, with $7 million
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he attracted the attention of billionaire Ross Perot who invested heavily in the company
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Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucas film’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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He got married
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after having sold only 50,000 machines, NeXT transitioned fully to software development with the release of NeXTSTEP/Intel
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A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2,Monsters, Inc. Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars Ratatouille, WALL-E Up, and Toy Story 3 (2010
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Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up and Toy Story 3 each received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, an award introduced in 2001
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Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
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Jobs announced that Pixar would seek a new partner to distribute its films after its contract with Disney expired.