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Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
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After leaving Orefon in 1974 and returning to California, Steve Jobs started working for Atari , an early pioneer manufacturer of personal computers. Jobs' close personal friend Steve Wozniak was also working for Atari, and the future founders of Apple teamed together to design games for Atari computers.
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Jobs and Wozniak had learned enough to try their hand at building personal computers. Using Steve Job's family garage as a base of operation, the team produced fifty fully assembled computers that were sold to a local Mountain View electronics store called the Byte Shop. The sale encouraged the pair to found the Apple Corporation on April 1, 1979.
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in 1984 a power struggle with the board of directors caused Steve Jobs to leave Apple.
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In 1986, Steve Jobs bought "The Graphics Group" from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for ten million dollars. The company was later renamed Pixar. At first Jobs intended that Pixar become a high-end graphic hardware developer, but that goal was not well achieved, and Pixar moved on to do what it does best - make animated films. Steve Jobs negotiated Pixar and Disney to collaborate on a number of animated films including Toy Story.
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Steve Jobs return to Apple as CEO in 1997
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On October 23, 2001, Apple introduced the iPod digital music player. Several updated models have since been introduced, and the iPod brand is now the market leader in portable music players by a significant margin, with more than 350 million units shipped as of September 2012
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The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it is buying longtime partner Pixar Animation Studios Inc. for $7.4 billion in stock in a deal that could restore Disney’s clout in animation while vaulting Pixar CEO Steve Jobs into a powerful role at the media conglomerate.
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At the Macworld Conference & Expo in January 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the long-anticipated iPhone, a convergence of an Internet-enabled smartphone and iPod
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On January 27, 2010, Apple introduced their much-anticipated media tablet, the iPad,
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Apple is listed in the fortune 500 number 5 largest company in the entire world
