[vc_row bg_type=”bg_color” bg_override=”full” css=”.vc_custom_1499104289737{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 50px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}” bg_color_value=”#ffffff” animation_type=”h” horizontal_animation=”left-animation” vertical_animation=”top-animation”][vc_column][ult_animation_block animation=”fadeIn” animation_duration=”1″ animation_delay=”0″ animation_iteration_count=”1″ opacity=”off”][icon_timeline timeline_style=”jstime” timeline_line_style=”solid” time_block_bg_color=”#f7f7f7″ time_sep_color=”#444444″ time_sep_bg_color=”#444444″ timeline_layout=”timeline-custom-width” custom_width=”361″][icon_timeline_sep time_sep_title=”1955-1985 Youth & Apple’s early years”][icon_timeline_item time_title=”24 Feb 1955″ time_position=”auto”]
Steven Paul was born in San Francisco, the son of Abdulfattah and Joanne. He is adopted by Jobs Family[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”1969″ time_position=”auto”]
Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak, 5 years older, through a mutual friend. Woz and Steve share a love of electronics, Bob Dylan, and pranks[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”1 Apr 1976″ time_position=”auto”]
Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Spring 1976″ time_position=”auto”]
Steve and Woz start assembling Apple I computers in the Jobses’ garage, and sell them to computer hobbyists, including 50 for the Byte Shop[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_feat time_title=”12 Dec 1980″ time_position=”auto”]
Apple goes public, increasing Steve Jobs’ net worth from dozens of millions of dollars to over $200 million[/icon_timeline_feat][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Feb 1982″ time_position=”auto”]
A portrait of Steve Jobs ends up on the cover of Time Magazine, under the title ‘Striking it Rich’.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”8 Apr 1983 ” time_position=”auto”]
PepsiCo CEO John Sculley becomes Apple’s CEO after having been wooed by Steve Jobs for several months[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”24 Jan 1984″ time_position=”auto”]
Macintosh is launched in great fanfare at Apple’s annual shareholder meeting[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”17 Sep 1985″ time_position=”auto”]
Steve Jobs resigns from Apple and starts NeXT with five other refugees from Apple.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_sep time_sep_title=”1986-1996 NeXT Pixar & wilderness”][icon_timeline_item time_title=”30 Jan 1986″ time_position=”auto”]
Jobs buys the computer division of George Lucas’ ILM for $10 million and incorporates it as Pixar.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”12 Oct 1988″ time_position=”auto”]Steve Jobs introduces the NeXT Cube in San Francisco to great critical acclaim, pitching it as a workstation for higher education
Steve Jobs is named ‘Entrepreneur of the decade’ by Inc. magazine[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”18 Mar 1991 ” time_position=”auto”]
Steve Jobs marries Laurene Powell in Yosemite under the blessing of Steve’s old zen guru Kobin Chino. Laurene is already pregnant[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_feat time_title=”29 Nov 1995″ time_position=”auto”]
One week after Toy Story is out, Pixar goes public. Steve Jobs’s worth rises to $1.5 billion, more than it ever was during his first tenure at Apple[/icon_timeline_feat][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Early 1996 ” time_position=”auto”]
Apple, which was desperately looking for a modern operating system to buy, eventually buys NeXT for $400 million. Steve Jobs is named “informal adviser” to Apple CEO Gil Amelio[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_sep time_sep_title=”1997-2004 Rebuilding Apple”][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Jul 1997″ time_position=”auto”]
Gil Amelio is ousted by the Apple Board of directors after a disastrous quarter. Steve Jobs is named interim CEO in his place and installs his NeXT executive team at the top of Apple[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”6 Aug 1997″ time_position=”auto”]
Steve Jobs introduces Apple’s new board of directors and a truce with Microsoft at Macworld Boston[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Fall 1997″ time_position=”auto”]
Apple starts its ‘Think Different’ campaign to restore its damaged brand image. The new slogan will quickly enter popular culture and define the company for the next five years[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”5 Jan 1999″ time_position=”auto”]
Steve Jobs introduces the new Power Mac G3 and the color iMacs at Macworld San Francisco[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”April 1999″ time_position=”auto”]
Pirates of Silicon Valley, a TV movie starring Noah Wyle as young Steve Jobs, airs[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”5 Jan 2000″ time_position=”auto”]
At Macworld San Francisco, Steve Jobs drops the ‘interim’ in his title and officially becomes Apple’s CEO.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”19 May 2001 ” time_position=”auto”]
Apple opens its first Retail Stores in Tysons Corner, Virginia and Glendale, California[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”23 Oct 2001 ” time_position=”auto”]
After an 8-month crash development program, Steve Jobs unveils iPod at a small media event on the company’s campus. He has no idea how it will tranform Apple[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”28 Apr 2003 ” time_position=”auto”]Apple opens the revolutionary online iTunes Music Store in the US, after negotiating landmark deals with all major music labels[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”30 May 2003″ time_position=”auto”]
Opening day of Finding Nemo, Pixar’s first Best Animated Feature Academy Award winner[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”23 Jun 2003″ time_position=”auto”]Steve Jobs unveils the Power Mac G5, the world’s fastest computer, at WWDC[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Fall 2003″ time_position=”auto”]Steve Jobs is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but stubbornly refuses any modern medical treatment for months. He tries alternative diets instead[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”6 Jan 2004″ time_position=”auto”]Steve unveils the iPod mini and the iLife suite at Macworld. The iPod mini will soon become the world’s best-selling MP3 player and truly establish Apple as a consumer electronics powerhouse[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Aug 2004″ time_position=”auto”]Steve Jobs finally has his pancreatic tumor removed by surgery[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_sep time_sep_title=”2005-2011 The Big Apple”][icon_timeline_item time_title=”12 Jun 2005 ” time_position=”auto”]
Steve Jobs makes a memorable commencement speech at Stanford University. History will remember its closing remarks, Steve’s advice to the young students:
‘Stay hungry, stay foolish’
[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”24 Jan 2006 ” time_position=”auto”]The Walt Disney Company acquires Pixar for $7.4 billion. Pixar’s largest shareholder Steve Jobs joins the Disney board while Ed Catmull becomes president of the Walt Disney Animation Studios, and John Lasseter its chief creative officer[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”9 Jan 2007 ” time_position=”auto”]
In his most memorable keynote presentation ever, at Macworld 2007, Steve Jobs introduces iPhone and its revolutionary touch-screen interface.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”15 Jan 2008 ” time_position=”auto”]
At Macworld 2008, Steve Jobs introduces MacBook Air, with the tagline ‘the world’s thinnest notebook’. Three years later, it will come to redefine all of Apple’s notebook product line[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Apr 2009″ time_position=”auto”]Steve receives a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He was weeks away from dying when he got the surgery[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”9 Sep 2009 ” time_position=”auto”]
Back at Apple, Steve Jobs makes the first public appearance after his transplant to introduce new iPods at the ‘It’s Only Rock’N’Roll’ event[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”27 Jan 2010″ time_position=”auto”]
After months of wild rumors, Steve Jobs unveils iPad, ‘the biggest thing Apple’s ever done’. The tablet runs the same operating system as iPhone[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”24 Aug 2011 ” time_position=”auto”]
Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple, with the words
‘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.’
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Steve Jobs dies at home, surrounded by his family[/icon_timeline_item][/icon_timeline][/ult_animation_block][/vc_column][/vc_row]