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Steve Jobs is born in San Francisco!
"I want to put a ding in the universe" - Steve Jobs -
Jobs graduates from high school and enrolls in Reed College
He dropped out of Reed after only one semester, but continued auditing classes. -
he takes a job as a technician at Atari
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together with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, he founds Apple
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Fist Apple commercial + introduction of Macintosh
"The development of the Mac was started by Jef Raskin, and eventually taken over by Jobs" "You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new" - Steve Jobs -
Jobs gets fired from Apple + founds NeXT Computer
"Jobs marketed NeXT products to the scientific and academic fields because of the innovative, experimental new technologies it incorporated (such as the Mach kernel, the digital signal processor chip, and the built-in Ethernet port)" -
Jobs buys The Graphics Group (Pixar)
"After years of unprofitability selling the Pixar Image Computer, it contracted with Disney to produce a number of computer-animated feature films, which Disney would co-finance and distribute" -
He marries Laurene Powell (:
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NeXT committs itself to software development
NeXTSTEP/Intel is released. -
Pixar's first movie (Toy Story) is released
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Apple buys NeXT and rehires Jobs
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He becomes Apple's permanent CEO
"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected" - Steve Jobs -
Apple introduces the iPhone
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Jobs resignes as CEO of Apple
..."but remained at the company as chairman of the company's board". Cause: Health problems :( "Hours after the announcement, Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares dropped 5% in after-hour trading" “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” - Steve Jobs
