Steve Jobs- Hank Beard

Birth

Feb 24, 1955

Steven Paul Jobs is born in San Francisco, California.

Adoption

Mar 10, 1955

Jobs is adopted shortly after his birth by Paul and Clara Jobs who lived in Palo Alto, California.

Graduation From High School

1972

Steve Jobs graduates from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California with a 2.65 GPA.

Jobs’ College Experience

1973

Jobs’ attends and drops out of Reed College in Portland, Oregon after six months.

Jobs’ time with Atari

1974

Shortly after dropping out of college, Jobs’ gets his first job as a video game designer at Atari and leaves after just a few months to “seek enlightenment” and follow Buddhism in India.

Apple I is completed

1976

Jobs and Steve Wozniak complete and show off the Apple I computer, Apple's first product, at the Homebrew Computer Club.

Apple Computer Inc. is Founded

Apr 1, 1976

Apple is incorporated with the goal of creating smaller, practical, and affordable computers by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne.

Apple II

Jun 10, 1977

The Apple II computer, designed to be a smaller improvement of it's successor, goes on sale.

Apple Inc. Goes Public

Dec 12, 1980

Apple Inc. begins to be publicly traded on the stock market, increasing the value and Jobs' net worth.

John Sculley

Apr 8, 1983

PepsiCo CEO John Sculley becomes the CEO of Apple.

Steve Jobs is removed from Apple

1985

The board sides with new CEO John Sculley and strips Jobs of his position at Apple.

NeXt

Sep 17, 1985

Jobs starts NeXt, a software company, with five other former Apple employees, Apple threatens to sue NeXt.

Apple buys NeXt

1996

Desperate for a new operating system, Apple purchases NeXt and Jobs rejoins Apple.

Pancreatic Cancer

2003

Jobs is diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer.

Death

Oct 5, 2011

Steve Jobs loses his battle with cancer and dies in Palo Alto, California.