Important Dates
1955
Steven Paul Jobs is born on February 24, 1955, in San Fran-
cisco, California.
1960
The Jobs family moves to the Silicon Valley.
1968
Jobs meets Steve Wozniak.
1971
Jobs and Wozniak make and sell illegal blue boxes.
1972
Jobs graduates high school and goes to Reed College.
1973
Jobs drops out of college.
1974
Jobs gets a job at Atari. He goes to India. He returns to Atari
upon his return from India. He reconnects with Wozniak.
1976
Jobs founds the Apple Computer Company with Steve
Wozniak.
1978
Jobs’s daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs is born.
1980
Apple Computer becomes a publicly traded company. Jobs
becomes a millionaire.
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