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Steven Paul Jobs is born in San Francisco, California. -
Jobs is adopted shortly after his birth by Paul and Clara Jobs who lived in Palo Alto, California. -
Steve Jobs graduates from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California with a 2.65 GPA. -
Jobs’ attends and drops out of Reed College in Portland, Oregon after six months. -
Shortly after dropping out of college, Jobs’ gets his first job as a video game designer at Atari and leaves after just a few months to “seek enlightenment” and follow Buddhism in India. -
Jobs and Steve Wozniak complete and show off the Apple I computer, Apple's first product, at the Homebrew Computer Club. -
Apple is incorporated with the goal of creating smaller, practical, and affordable computers by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne. -
The Apple II computer, designed to be a smaller improvement of it's successor, goes on sale. -
Apple Inc. begins to be publicly traded on the stock market, increasing the value and Jobs' net worth. -
PepsiCo CEO John Sculley becomes the CEO of Apple. -
The board sides with new CEO John Sculley and strips Jobs of his position at Apple. -
Jobs starts NeXt, a software company, with five other former Apple employees, Apple threatens to sue NeXt. -
Desperate for a new operating system, Apple purchases NeXt and Jobs rejoins Apple. -
Jobs is diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer. -
Steve Jobs loses his battle with cancer and dies in Palo Alto, California.