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Birth
On February 24th 1955, Steve Jobs is born, and then shortly after, put up for adoption. Some more background to his infant days is, his birth parents were teens when they had Steve. They had set up a closed adoption with a couple that fit the necessary components. After Steve was born, the family backed out because they decided they wanted a girl. Steve was placed with a family that had high school educations and his birth mother was very concerned for this. -
Apple 1
Steve Jobs and his partner, Steve Wozniak, build their first model of an apple computer in Steve Jobs' family garage. The model was hand made, and they got the money to build it by selling Steve Jobs' car. -
Daughter
After the excitement of creating his first computer. Steve Jobs receives news that his ex-girlfriend Chris-Ann Brennan had their baby girl, Lisa. Jobs' is very stunned by this information and actually refuses to accept the fact that he has a daughter, and says no to any sort of help he could be giving. This leads into how the public and Jobs' co-workers view him. He was a very rude man to anyone in his way. He didn't respect anyone helping out his company and he fired many of his workers. -
Macintosh
On January 24, 1984, Jobs sits down with the board of his company at their annual shareholders meeting. As a result of the meeting, they walked away with a brand new software program called Macintosh, or as it is now known as "Mac". -
Pixar
During the winter of 1986, Steve Jobs' reaches out to George Lucas, "a very well know American film maker"(The Entrepreneurs). Steve Jobs gave Pixar Animation five million dollars so he could have his newest software installed in their studios. These computers helped create the graphic design for "Toy Story 1", "Finding Nemo" and "Monsters Inc.". -
Resignation
Steve Jobs had been fighting a long battle of pancreatic cancer. He finally announces to the public that he will no longer be the CEO of Apple. In his resignation announcement to the public he states, "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come"(Isaacson). -
Death
On October 5th 2011 Steve Jobs dies at his home while surrounded by family.
