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The Birth of Steve Jobs
Steven Paul is born in San Francisco, CA, soon to be adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. -
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Steve Jobs - 2011
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Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak.
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Steve and Woz build and sell illegally blue boxes to Berkeley students
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Steve spends one semester at Reed College, Oregon, then drops out
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Steve gets a job at Atari
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Steve and Woz start assembling Apple I computers in the Jobs' garage, and sell them to hobbyists.
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Apple goes public, increasing Steve Jobs' net worth to over $200 million.
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Steve ends up on the cover of Time Magazine.
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Steve Jobs resigns from Apple.
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Jobs buys a division of George Lucas' ILM for $10 million and incorporates it as Pixar
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Steve Jobs marries Laurene Powell.
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Pixar signs a deal with Disney to make a computer-animated feature film.
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Laurene gives birth to Steve’s first son, Reed Paul.
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Steve becomes President & CEO of Pixar Animation Studios.
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One week after Toy Story is out, Pixar goes public. Steve Jobs worth $1.5 billion
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Steve Jobs negotiaties a breakthrough deal between Pixar and Disney with Michael Eisner.
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Apple buys NeXT for $400 million. Steve Jobs is named "informal adviser" to CEO Gil Amelio.
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Gil Amelio is ousted by the Apple Board. Steve Jobs is named interim CEO.
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Steve Jobs introduces Apple's revolutionary iMac.
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Steve Jobs officially becomes Apple’s CEO and demoes Mac OS X at Macworld.
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Steve Jobs unveils the first iPod.
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Apple opens the online iTunes Music Store in the US.
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Opening day of Finding Nemo, Pixar’s first Best Animated Feature Academy Award winner.
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Steve Jobs is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
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Steve unveils the iPod mini and the iLife suite at Macworld.
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Steve Jobs has his pancreatic tumor removed by surgery.
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The Walt Disney Company acquires Pixar for $7.4 billion, and Steve joins the board.
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iPhone is released in the US, the same day as Pixar’s Ratatouille.
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Steve Jobs is inducted in the California Hall of Fame by Gov. Schwartzenegger.
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Steve Jobs takes a medical leave of absence for six months.
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Steve has surgery for a liver transplant.
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Steve Jobs unveils iPad, the much-anticipated Apple tablet.