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Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco and was given up for adoption by Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattan Jandali. He was then adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.
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Jobs met the future Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and becomes instant friends even with their four year age difference.
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Steve Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California then enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon but dropped out after a semester.
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Steve Jobs briefly worked as an engineer at Atari. Increasing his skills, he and Wozniak worked together to create the single player game of Pong.
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Jobs and Wozniak co-founded the Apple Computer and the Apple company. They sold the Apple I for a profit of $666.66.
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Apple Inc. began while the release of the Apple II was the first commercially available personal computer with color graphics.
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In 1980, Apple Computer came out to the public with a market value of $1.2 billion. To fulfill the role of Apple's president, Jobs sought market expert, John Scully.
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The Macintosh was introduced as the first computer with graphical user interface (GUI).
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Steve Jobs resigned as the Apple chairman after being voted to leave by other chairmen and best friend John Sculley. He moves on to create the company NeXT that supported in building built-in Ethernet ports.
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Jobs became the president and CEO of Pixar and released the movie "Toy Story" which became an instant blockbuster. At the same time, Apple declined in profit and stock.
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Steve Jobs continues his work at NeXT by creating new software and hardware products. He goes back and forth with Pixar as well by keeping the company financed and inspiring new ideas.
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Steve Jobs returns to Apple Inc. and buys NeXT for $429 million. He puts the company back on track by raising their profits and laying off engineers to hire new ones.
