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Chronological Biography of Steve Jobs

1955
- Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs was born.
-he was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993) and Clara Jobs (1924–1986)

1960
- Jobs family moved from San Francisco to Mountain View, California

1972
-Graduated from high school at Homestead High School in Cupertino, California
-Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon
- dropped out of college after six months
-Given a job as a technician at Atari, Inc. in Los Gatos, California

mid-1974
-Travelled in India in search of spiritual enlightenment.
- left India after 7 months and returned to work at Atari. 1975
-began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Wozniak

1976
- Jobs and Wozniak formed their own business, which they named "Apple Computer Company" in remembrance of a happy summer Jobs had spent picking apples.

1978
-Jobs's first child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs was born.

early 1980s
Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa.

1980s
- Jobs found his birth mother, Joanne Schieble Simpson, who told him he had a biological sister, Mona Simpson

1983
Jobs lured John Sculley away from Pepsi-Cola to serve as Apple's CEO.

1984 -emotional Jobs introduced the Macintosh to a wildly enthusiastic audience

1985
-Jobs was removed from his managerial duties as head of the Macintosh division.
- he resigned from Apple
-after his resignation with $7 Million , He founded NeXT Inc.
-He met his biological sister Mona Simpson the first time.

1986
Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for the price of $10 million, $5 million of which was given to the company as capital.

1991
-Jobs married Laurene Powell on March 18, 1991, in a ceremony at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.
-his son Reed, was born

1995
-first film produced by the

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