THE LIFE
OF
Steve Jobs
A timeline of the life of Apple co-founder and revolutionary technology pioneer, Steve Jobs.
1955
1976
1970
Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California where he was given up for adoption.
February 24th, 1955 - Born
1980
1985
Jobs co-founds Apple Computers with Wozniak, also releasing the Apple I for $666.66 the same year.
Foundation of Apple
Jobs met future Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak through a friend and immediately hit it off.
Meeting Steve Wozniak
Apple had it's IPO on December 12th, 1980, which rose Job's net worth to $200 million.
Apple Goes Public
1996
2007
Jobs resigns as Apple Chairman and starts NeXT Computer which becomes the first server of the World Wide Web
Resignation
Jobs returns to Apple as an adviser when Apple buys NeXT for $429 million and becomes Apple's CEO the following year.
Return
2011
Apple revolutionizes mobile phones with the release of the original iPhone on January 9th, as well as the iPod Touch later that year on September 5th
Technological Revolution
Death
Steve Jobs passed away due to pancreatic cancer on October 11th, 2011 at the age of 56.
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