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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was an American inventor, who was the co-founder, and CEO of Apple Inc. -
Steve's birthday
Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955.He was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993) and Clara Jobs (1924–1986), an Armenian American. -
School
Jobs's youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. At Monta Loma Elementary school in Mountain View, he frequently played pranks on others. -
New Friend
Jobs then attended Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California.At Homestead, Jobs became friends with Bill Fernandez, a neighbor who shared the same interests in electronics. Fernandez introduced Jobs to his neighbor, Steve Wozniak, a computer and electronics whiz kid, who was also known as "Woz". In 1969 Wozniak started building a little computer board with Fernandez that they named "The Cream Soda Computer", which they showed to Jobs; he seemed really interest. -
College
Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs entered at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Reed was an expensive college which Paul and Clara could ill afford. They were spending much of their life savings on their son's higher education.Jobs dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes, including a course on calligraphy. -
The Apple 1
In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. After Wozniak showed it to Jobs, who suggested that they sell it, they and Ronald Wayne formed Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs's parents in order to sell it.Wayne stayed only a short time leaving Jobs and Wozniak as the primary co-founders of the company.They received funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing manager and engineer Mike Markkula.Scott McNealy, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsyste. -
The NeXT Inc.
Jobs founded NeXT Inc. in 1985 after his resignation with $7 million. NeXT was acquired by Apple Inc. in 1997, WebObjects was used to build and run the Apple Store, MobileMe services, and the iTunes Store. -
Buying NeXT
n 1996, Apple announced that it would buy NeXT for $427 million. The deal was finalized in February 1997, bringing Jobs back to the company he co-founded. Jobs became de facto chief after then-CEO Gil Amelio was ousted in July 1997. -
Ipod
The first generation of iPod was released October 23, 2001. -
Cancer
In October 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with cancer -
Iphone
Apple began work on the first iPhone in 2005 and the first iPhone was released on June 29, 2007. -
Death
Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California, home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011
