Steve Jobs - 2011 By PattyP15 Feb 24, 1955 The Birth of Steve Jobs Steven Paul is born in San Francisco, CA, soon to be adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. Period: Feb 24, 1955 to Jan 27, 2010 Steve Jobs - 2011 Jan 1, 1969 Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak. Jan 1, 1972 Steve and Woz build and sell illegally blue boxes to Berkeley students Sep 22, 1973 Steve spends one semester at Reed College, Oregon, then drops out Jan 1, 1974 Steve gets a job at Atari Sep 22, 1975 Steve and Woz start assembling Apple I computers in the Jobs' garage, and sell them to hobbyists. Dec 12, 1980 Apple goes public, increasing Steve Jobs' net worth to over $200 million. Feb 1, 1982 Steve ends up on the cover of Time Magazine. Sep 17, 1985 Steve Jobs resigns from Apple. Jan 30, 1986 Jobs buys a division of George Lucas' ILM for $10 million and incorporates it as Pixar Mar 18, 1991 Steve Jobs marries Laurene Powell. May 22, 1991 Pixar signs a deal with Disney to make a computer-animated feature film. Sep 22, 1991 Laurene gives birth to Steve’s first son, Reed Paul. Feb 1, 1995 Steve becomes President & CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. Nov 29, 1995 One week after Toy Story is out, Pixar goes public. Steve Jobs worth $1.5 billion Jan 1, 1996 Steve Jobs negotiaties a breakthrough deal between Pixar and Disney with Michael Eisner. Dec 1, 1996 Apple buys NeXT for $400 million. Steve Jobs is named "informal adviser" to CEO Gil Amelio. Jul 22, 1997 Gil Amelio is ousted by the Apple Board. Steve Jobs is named interim CEO. May 6, 1998 Steve Jobs introduces Apple's revolutionary iMac. Jan 5, 2000 Steve Jobs officially becomes Apple’s CEO and demoes Mac OS X at Macworld. Oct 23, 2001 Steve Jobs unveils the first iPod. Apr 28, 2003 Apple opens the online iTunes Music Store in the US. May 30, 2003 Opening day of Finding Nemo, Pixar’s first Best Animated Feature Academy Award winner. Nov 1, 2003 Steve Jobs is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Jan 6, 2004 Steve unveils the iPod mini and the iLife suite at Macworld. Aug 1, 2004 Steve Jobs has his pancreatic tumor removed by surgery. Jan 24, 2006 The Walt Disney Company acquires Pixar for $7.4 billion, and Steve joins the board. Jun 29, 2007 iPhone is released in the US, the same day as Pixar’s Ratatouille. Dec 5, 2007 Steve Jobs is inducted in the California Hall of Fame by Gov. Schwartzenegger. Jan 5, 2009 Steve Jobs takes a medical leave of absence for six months. Apr 1, 2009 Steve has surgery for a liver transplant. Jan 27, 2010 Steve Jobs unveils iPad, the much-anticipated Apple tablet.
