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Steve Jobs was born on February 24th, 1955 in San Francisco. Joanne Carole Schieble and Syrian born Abdulfattah "John" Jandal were his two parents. They happened to be unmarried at the time.
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He lived to be 56 years old. He died an innovative man. One that left behind the "renaissance" in technology.
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In the late 1970s, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak engineered one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series.
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Jobs and Steve Wozniak met in 1971, when their mutual friend, Bill Fernandez, introduced Wozniak to Jobs.
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In 1974 Jobs was in desperate need of money, so he applied for a job at Atari, the first video game company (created in 1972). The co-founder of Atari, Nolan Bushnell, was impressed by Jobs's performance.
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Jobs began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Wozniak in 1975.
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Jobs and Wozniak formed their own business, which they named “Apple Computer Company” in remembrance of a happy summer Jobs had spent picking apples. At first they started off selling circuit boards, but eventually they produced a complete computer prototype
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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 the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa.
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Jobs pushed 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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Apple employee, Jef Raskin, invents the Macintosh.
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An emotional Jobs introduced the Macintosh to an enthusiastic audience; Andy Hertzfeld described the scene as "pandemonium".
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In 1985, Steve left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets
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After leaving Apple, Jobs founded NeXT Computer in 1985, with $7 million
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In 1986, he obtained the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, which became Pixar
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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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After difficulties developing a new Mac OS, Apple purchased NeXT in 1996 in order to use NeXTSTEP as the base of what became Mac OS X. Since he was a part of the deal, Steve became named Apple advisor.
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As Apple flourished, Steve takes control of the company and was named "interim CEO" in 1997, or as he jokingly referred to it, "iCEO".
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In 2003, Jobs was found to have pancreas neuroendocrine tumor. Basically, cancer.
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Steve remained as CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until it was taken by The Walt Disney Company in 2006, making Steve Disney's largest individual shareholder at seven percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors.
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Steve reported a hormone imbalance, and so he underwent a liver transplant in 2009, and appeared slowly thinner as his health worsened
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In August 2011, Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, but remained with the company as chairman of the company's board.
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October 5th, 2011 is the day that Steve Jobs died. His death was caused by his lifelong battle with cancer. He died the genius/mastermind of the flourishing company, Apple.
