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Steven Paul was born in San Francisco, the son of Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble. He is quickly adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs

The Jobs family moves from San Francisco to Mountain View, a suburban town in Santa Clara county, more famous under the name Silicon Valley

13-year-old Steve Jobs calls up Bill Hewlett and gets a summer job at the HP factory

Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak, 5 years older, through a mutual friend. Woz and Steve share a love of electronics, Bob Dylan, and pranks

Steve spends the fall semester at Reed College, Oregon, then drops out. He will stay on campus and attend the classes that interest him for a while, then move to a hippie commune

Steve gets his first job at video game maker Atari, and later makes a trip to India to 'seek enlightenment' with his college friend Dan Kottke

Woz and Steve show the early Apple I board at the Homebrew Computer Club

Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne

Steve and Woz start assembling Apple I computers in the Jobses' garage, and sell them to computer hobbyists, including 50 for the Byte Shop

Steve Jobs and Woz show off the Apple I at the Personal Computing Festival in Atlantic City, with help from Dan Kottke

Former Intel executive turned business angel Mike Markkula invests in Apple and hires former colleague Mike Scott as CEO. Woz is forced to leave HP to join Apple full time

Sales of Apple II skyrocket after pioneer spreadsheet software Visicalc is introduced

Steve Jobs is shown the first working graphical user interface at Xerox PARC

Jef Raskin's Macintosh project is green-lighted. Lisa evolves into a GUI-computer, in part because of Steve Jobs' demands

Apple launches the Apple III, which will prove a disastrous flop

Apple goes public, increasing Steve Jobs' net worth from dozens of millions of dollars to over $200 million

Jef Raskin is forced out of his Macintosh project as Steve Jobs takes over

IBM launches the IBM PC, the biggest threat to Apple's future yet

Time instead makes The Computer 'machine of the year' and publishes a hatchet job on Steve Jobs, who becomes furious and suspicious of journalists for the rest of his life

Launch of the Lisa computer. The Lisa team later merges with the Mac team under Steve Jobs's leadership

PepsiCo CEO John Sculley becomes Apple's CEO after having been wooed by Steve Jobs for several months

Steve Jobs celebrates his 30th birthday with Ella Fitzgerald as guest singer for the night

Palace coup: Apple's board sides with John Sculley and strips Steve off all executive duties

Alan Kay first introduces the Pixar team to Steve Jobs

Steve's mother Clara dies. A couple months later, Steve discovers his biological mother Joanne and his sister, novelist Mona Simpson. They will become very close

Jobs buys the computer division of George Lucas' ILM for $10 million and incorporates it as Pixar

Ross Perot invests $20 million in NeXT, based on a $125 million valuation. The startup has still to release a product

NeXT and IBM form a partnership to have NeXT's system run on IBM machines

Pixar launches its new computer graphics workstation, the Pixar Image Computer II, and starts working on the RenderMan computer animation software

NeXT partners with retailer Businessland to sell to corporate America in addition to higher ed

Steve Jobs is named 'Entrepreneur of the decade' by Inc. magazine

Steve shuts down all of Pixar's hardware operations

Canon invests $100 million in NeXT, now valued at $600 million

Steve introduces the cheaper NeXTstation in San Francisco, to boost the modest sales of NeXT hardware

Steve Jobs fires almost half of Pixar's staff and takes back all of the employees' stock in an effort to cut costs, as the company is still in the red 5 years after its launch

Pixar signs a deal with Disney to make a computer-animated feature film

Laurene gives birth to Steve's second child and only son, Reed Paul Jobs

NeXT licenses its operating system, NeXTSTEP, to run on x86 machines

NeXT fires 300 employees as it discontinues all its hardware operations and becomes NeXT Software Inc. This is the nadir of Steve's career

Steve's father, Paul Jobs, dies

Laurene gives birth to Erin Siena Jobs, her second child with Steve

Steve Jobs negotiaties a breakthrough deal between Pixar and Disney with its CEO Michael Eisner. The deal includes landmark rights for a studio, such as equal billing

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

Steve Jobs introduces Apple's new board of directors and a truce with Microsoft at Macworld Boston

At Macworld San Francisco, Steve Jobs announces that Apple is profitable again, thanks to sales of the new Power Macintosh computers

Eve Jobs, Laurene and Steve's youngest daughter, is born

Steve Jobs introduces the new Power Mac G3 and the color iMacs at Macworld San Francisco

The Power Mac G4 Cube is unveiled at Macworld NY. It will be discontinued one year later because of disappointing sales

After four years of hard work, Mac OS X 10.0, the new incarnation of NeXTstep, ships

Apple opens its first Retail Stores in Tysons Corner, Virginia and Glendale, California

Steve unveils the iMac G4 and the fourth iApp, iPhoto, at Macworld San Francisco

Apple starts its popular 'Switch' campaign with ads picturing PC users that switched to the Mac

Steve Jobs introduces the first Windows-compatible iPods at Macworld NY

Apple opens the revolutionary online iTunes Music Store in the US, after negotiating landmark deals with all major music labels

Following increasing tension with Michael Eisner, Steve Jobs announces that Pixar is seeking a new distributor to replace Disney after its contract expires

Steve Jobs unveils the Power Mac G5, the world's fastest computer, at WWDC

Steve Jobs is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but stubbornly refuses any modern medical treatment for months. He tries alternative diets instead

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

Steve Jobs finally has his pancreatic tumor removed by surgery

At Macworld San Francisco, Steve Jobs unveils Apple's productivity suite iWork, the new Mac mini, and the iPod shuffle, the cheapest iPod ever at $49

Steve turns 50

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is released. A stable, fast release, it is immensely popular and marks the end of the four-year transition from the old Mac OS to UNIX-based Mac OS X

At WWDC 2005, Steve Jobs announces that Apple is going to switch away from Motorola's and IBM's PowerPC architectures, and use Intel processors in its future Macs instead. This move will further help the growing adoption of the Mac

Steve introduces the Motorola ROCKR, an iTunes-compatible cell phone, and the iPod nano

Steve Jobs invites Disney's new CEO Bob Iger on stage at an Apple Music Event where he also introduces the new iPod videos and the iTunes movie store

Steve Jobs unveils the first two Intel Macs at Macworld, the iMac and the new MacBook Pro

Apple releases its first living-room product, the iPod hi-fi, discontinued a year and a half later

Steve Jobs announces Apple's intention to erect a second campus in Cupertino

Apple starts its famous 'Mac vs PC' campaign, a series of TV commercials featuring Justin Long as Mac and John Hodgman as PC. The campaign will last for three years and mark popular culture

Apple completes the transition of its entire product line to the Intel platform with the new Mac Pro

Welcome to iPhone

In his most memorable keynote presentation ever, at Macworld 2007, Steve Jobs introduces iPhone and its revolutionary touch-screen interface. He also introduces Apple TV and announces the company's name change from Apple Computer Inc. to Apple Inc. to better reflect its new nature

The SEC files charges against Apple's Nancy Heinen and Fred Anderson for options backdating

Steve Jobs is inducted in the California Hall of Fame by Gov. Schwartzenegger

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

The press starts speculating about Steve Jobs's health as he appears very thin to unveil the iPhone 3G with an entry price of $199 on stage at WWDC

The SEC clears Steve Jobs of any responsibilities in the options backdating scandal

Steve Jobs announces he will not speak at Macworld 2009 because of his health, and takes a six-month medical leave of absence

Steve receives a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He was weeks away from dying when he got the surgery

Google CEO Eric Schmidt leaves Apple's board because of conflicting interests due to Android

Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, stripped off any code from the original Mac OS

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

One month after the release of the new iPhone 4, Steve Jobs holds a press conference to address the smartphone's supposed reception issues, the so-called 'Antennagate'

Jobs surprises the world by announcing his new medical leave of absence, without any end date

Despite his medical leave, Steve Jobs takes the stage to unveil the new iPad 2

Steve Jobs appears at the Cupertino City Council to unveil Apple's plans for its new 'Spaceship' campus. This is his last public appearance

Steve Jobs dies at home, surrounded by his family

A private service is held at Stanford University's Memorial Church in memory of Steve Jobs, attended by many of his friends, former colleagues and industry peers

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As an innovator and visionary, Steve Jobs' accomplishments can be held on a pedestal with the likes of Microsoft's ( MSFT) Bill Gates, Google's ( GOOG) Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Facebook's ( FB) Mark Zuckerberg. The aforementioned names are all highly regarded within technology for transforming consumerism and the accessibility of information. While best known as the CEO of Apple ( AAPL), the late Jobs has had a profound effect on the world outside of technology. From purchasing Pixar in 1986 to supporting charities and environmental causes, Jobs' achievements and innovations continue to affect industries and lifestyles worldwide.

NeXT

Most associate Jobs' success with Apple; however, in the early days, Jobs' relationship with Apple proved to be a rocky one. After resigning from the company in 1985, Jobs founded NeXT, a firm that created computers for business and educational needs. While NeXT wasn't particularly successful based on units sold, the company continues to be an integral part of computers today: portions of Nextstep operating systems still live on within Mac OS X. Additionally, the famous "Wolfenstein" and "Doom" computer games were written on NeXTcube stations. (For more, see: Steve Jobs And The Apple Story.)

Pixar

Job's $5 million acquisition of Lucasfilms' Computer Graphic Division in 1986 proved to be a wise investment. The potential he saw in the company - later renamed Pixar - paid off when he sold it to Disney ( DIS) in 2006 for $7.4 billion. Prior to the mid 1990s, Disney was the gold standard of full-length animated feature films, and it wasn't until the success of "Toy Story" in 1995 that Pixar landed on the map. With each subsequent film, Pixar gained steam and created a whole animation industry in Hollywood. The company's movies grossed $3.8 billion worldwide before its acquisition by Disney.

While Jobs lacked expertise in graphic design and video production, he believed Pixar's computer technology and animation would one day match Disney's work. Job's biggest impact was on the strategic direction of the company, including leading and overseeing Pixar's IPO in 1995. The investment capital Pixar received from going public gave Jobs the freedom to rapidly expand the company. Many attest that Jobs' drive and vision for Pixar gave the company the support it needed to prosper and flourish. Today Pixar is recognized as one of the most influential film studios in the world.

Apple

Jobs' product launches while at the helm of Apple continue to impact countless individuals. Released in 2001, the iPod was widely recognized as the first user friendly and innovative means of accessing music on the go. Consumers had used portable radios, CD or tape players for remote audio purposes prior to widespread access of mp3 files. Syncing with Apple's iTunes program, the iPod gave users the means to carry and purchase hundreds of songs on a single device. Currently the iPod can be found in three different models depending on user needs.

Jobs' next big product launch was the iPhone. Combining the features of an iPod with those of a phone and computer, the iPhone enabled users to make calls, listen to music, and browse the Internet on one touchscreen-capable device. Besides synchronization to iTunes, the iPhone featured an exclusive App Store that liberated users from purchasing content from wireless carriers. Before the App Store, wireless carriers controlled the distribution of content to phones. As evidenced by the 500 millionth iPhone sale and 50 billionth app download in early 2014, Jobs' iPhone has clearly had a far reach.

Taking their cue from the iPhone, Apple and Jobs then created the first touchscreen tablet without a keyboard. A cross between a laptop and an iPhone, the iPad spurred the development of a new industry that other technology companies have since entered. Jobs' influence on retail products has revolutionized consumer technology, forcing engineers and developers to create new and innovative products. Consumers have benefited most from increased competition, as products remain modestly priced but boast increased capabilities and features.

Charity

As seen at NeXT, Pixar, and Apple, Jobs had a visible role in the success of products and companies. However, behind the scenes Jobs was known by a select few as a philanthropist. While his philanthropic efforts were rarely made public, many have attested to Jobs charitable nature. Jobs donated over $50 million to Stanford hospitals and contributed to various projects to fight AIDS. As a philanthropist, Jobs' goal wasn't to be recognized, but to help those who needed it. (For more, see: How To Start A Charity.)

Environment

Not only are Apple products considered innovative, they are also environmentally friendly. Jobs promoted an initiative for environmentally friendly products during his time as CEO. Apple utilizes eco-conscious materials such as recycled plastics and papers in its products to conserve global resources. Likewise, all Apple products are ENERGY STAR qualified, which means they are energy efficient. (For more, see: Clean Or Green Technology Investing.)

The Bottom Line

As the initial creator of upscale user friendly mechanisms, Steve Jobs' accomplishments in technology continue to have profound effects today. The competition created from the introduction of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad has revolutionized the technology industry. Consumers have benefited from developments in phones and computing, and have a wider array of choices when purchasing computers, phones and tablets. While Jobs' influence on technology was obvious, his philanthropy has gone widely unrecognized. Jobs donated to a variety of charitable causes, and he also sought to lessen the long lasting environmental impacts of Apple's products by changing the company's environmental policy.

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Apple just announced its first new product category since the iPad. And since Steve Jobs. Follow his life path to see how he learned to create and think like a genius.
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How Steve Jobs Started - The Winding Path

As people around the world wondered if innovation at Apple had stopped with Steve Jobs, we want to share with you a snapshot of the genius's life.

How did Steve Jobs start? His life story is not a straight line, but more like a winding path. From his early years it's clear that Jobs had no grand plan in the beginning. His search for himself took Jobs through India, Buddhism, psychedelic use, attempts to become an astronaut and start a computer company in the Soviet Union.

However winding his path at time, Jobs did find inspiration and creativity in himself at certain periods of his life. If there is a pattern of creativity and genius that his life can reveal, here is his timeline.

Keep Looking, Don't Settle

Steve Jobs summarized his guiding principle in life in 2005 at the commencement at Stanford in a talk titled "How to Live Before You Die". He said, You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle.

And One More Thing
"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith," said Steve Jobs.
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Most of the facts in the timeline came from Walter Isaacson's biography Steve Jobs.

This biography is unusual in the sense that Jobs gave the author complete freedom - he didn't edit, review or even read the biography. On top of that, Jobs encouraged the author to talk to his former girlfriends, enemies, and employees he fired. Why? Throughout the biography, Jobs's brutal honesty comes across. Somehow it co-exists with his ability to hype things up. Jobs is not trying to make you like him. But he really wants you to care about what matters to him.
One of the first things we learn about Jobs in the book is that he himself studied biographies of his heroes. Polaroid co-founder, Edwin Land, impressed on him the importance of people who understood both the humanities and the sciences, creating something at the intersection of the two. He just that. Friends from the early days shed light on how Steve Jobs acquired his "reality distortion" - he perfected two skills: staring a person in the eye, and practicing long periods of silence. Combining showmanship, technical knowledge and salesmanship, he became a true hybrid. The biography manages to show Jobs this multi-dimensional personality, with his many contradictions on full display: he does primal scream therapy, audits physics classes at Stanford, grows apples on a commune farm in Oregon, and wants to dedicate his life to spirituality. Conflicted, he unleashes his erratic management style on his many loyal employees at Apple. Once fired, he soul-searches again and comes back a new man, the one most of us know about.

The story doesn't end here. Four years later, another biography Becoming Steve Jobs came out to challenge what some people thought was an incomplete picture of Jobs' personality. While Isaacson's book focused more on personal life, Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender chronicles the business decisions and products.

To understand how Steve Jobs' role in the history of computers fits with others like Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Paul Allen, Tim Berners-Lee, a comprehensive look at the the entire timeline from Isaacson The Innovators by Walter Isaacson will put Steve Jobs' legacy into context.

Movie directors made many attempts to capture Jobs' complex persona on screen. The most successful of them is Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999). Even though Jobs himself disliked the script and the director, he liked the acting of his character and personally reached out to him. The latter two movies with Ashton Kutcher and Steve Jobs (2015) with Michael Fassbender are generally incomplete and non-chronological.

Although we don't have anyone quite like Steve Jobs now, Elon Musk is often compared to him. It turns out the two did meet in person, but the encounter did not go well. Perhaps the world is not looking for a next Steve Jobs, but I think we expect that it takes someone with a vision as big as his to lead this world forward.

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Who Was Steve Jobs?

Steven Paul Jobs was an American inventor, designer and entrepreneur who was the co-founder, chief executive and chairman of Apple Computer. Apple's revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology.

Born in 1955 to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption, Jobs was smart but directionless, dropping out of college and experimenting with different pursuits before co-founding Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976. Jobs left the company in 1985, launching Pixar Animation Studios, then returned to Apple more than a decade later. Jobs died in 2011 following a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Steve Jobs' Parents and Adoption

Jobs was born to Joanne Schieble (later Joanne Simpson) and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, two University of Wisconsin graduate students. The couple gave up their unnamed son for adoption.

Jobs' father, Jandali, was a Syrian political science professor. His mother, Schieble, worked as a speech therapist. Shortly after Jobs was placed for adoption, his biological parents married and had another child, Mona Simpson. It was not until Jobs was 27 that he was able to uncover information on his biological parents.

As an infant, Jobs was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs. Clara worked as an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist.

Early Life

Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California. He lived with his adoptive family in Mountain View, California, within the area that would later become known as Silicon Valley.

As a boy, Jobs and his father worked on electronics in the family garage. Paul showed his son how to take apart and reconstruct electronics, a hobby that instilled confidence, tenacity and mechanical prowess in young Jobs.

Steve Jobs' Education and College

While Jobs was always an intelligent and innovative thinker, his youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. Jobs was a prankster in elementary school due to boredom, and his fourth-grade teacher needed to bribe him to study. Jobs tested so well, however, that administrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school - a proposal that his parents declined.

After high school, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Lacking direction, he dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes at the school. Jobs later recounted how one course in calligraphy developed his love of typography.

In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari. Several months later he left the company to find spiritual enlightenment in India, traveling further and experimenting with psychedelic drugs.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs

Back when Jobs was enrolled at Homestead High School, he was introduced to his future partner and co-founder of Apple Computer, Wozniak, who was attending the University of California, Berkeley.

In a 2007 interview with PC World, Wozniak spoke about why he and Jobs clicked so well: "We both loved electronics and the way we used to hook up digital chips," Wozniak said. "Very few people, especially back then, had any idea what chips were, how they worked and what they could do. I had designed many computers, so I was way ahead of him in electronics and computer design, but we still had common interests. We both had pretty much sort of an independent attitude about things in the world."

Founding and Leaving Apple Computer

In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computer in the Jobs' family garage. They funded their entrepreneurial venture by Jobs selling his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak selling his beloved scientific calculator. Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry with Apple by democratizing the technology and making machines smaller, cheaper, intuitive and accessible to everyday consumers.

Wozniak conceived of a series of user-friendly personal computers, and - with Jobs in charge of marketing - Apple initially marketed the computers for $666.66 each. The Apple I earned the corporation around $774,000. Three years after the release of Apple's second model, the Apple II, the company's sales increased by 700 percent to $139 million.

In 1980, Apple Computer became a publicly-traded company, with a market value of $1.2 billion by the end of its very first day of trading. Jobs looked to marketing expert John Sculley of Pepsi-Cola to take over the role of CEO for Apple.

The next several products from Apple suffered significant design flaws, however, resulting in recalls and consumer disappointment. IBM suddenly surpassed Apple in sales, and Apple had to compete with an IBM/PC-dominated business world.

In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh, marketing the computer as a piece of a counterculture lifestyle: romantic, youthful, creative. But despite positive sales and performance superior to IBM's PCs, the Macintosh was still not IBM-compatible.

Sculley believed Jobs was hurting Apple, and the company's executives began to phase him out. Not actually having had an official title with the company he co-founded, Jobs was pushed into a more marginalized position and thus left Apple in 1985.

NeXT

After leaving Apple in 1985, Jobs began a new hardware and software enterprise called NeXT, Inc. The company floundered in its attempts to sell its specialized operating system to mainstream America, and Apple eventually bought the company in 1996 for $429 million.

Reinventing Apple

In 1997, Jobs returned to his post as Apple's CEO. Just as Jobs instigated Apple's success in the 1970s, he is credited with revitalizing the company in the 1990s.

With a new management team, altered stock options and a self-imposed annual salary of $1 a year, Jobs put Apple back on track. Jobs' ingenious products (like the iMac), effective branding campaigns and stylish designs caught the attention of consumers once again.

In the ensuing years, Apple introduced such revolutionary products as the Macbook Air, iPod and iPhone, all of which dictated the evolution of technology. Almost immediately after Apple released a new product, competitors scrambled to produce comparable technologies.

Apple's quarterly reports improved significantly in 2007: Stocks were worth $199.99 a share-a record-breaking number at that time - and the company boasted a staggering $1.58 billion profit, an $18 billion surplus in the bank and zero debt.

In 2008, Apple became the second-biggest music retailer in America - second only to Walmart, fueled by iTunes and iPod sales. Apple has also been ranked No. 1 on Fortune magazine's list of "America's Most Admired Companies," as well as No. 1 among Fortune 500 companies for returns to shareholders.

Steve Jobs and Pixar

In 1986, Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios. Believing in Pixar's potential, Jobs initially invested $50 million of his own money in the company.

The studio went on to produce wildly popular movies such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles; Pixar's films have collectively netted $4 billion. The studio merged with Walt Disney in 2006, making Jobs Disney's largest shareholder.

In 2011, Forbes estimated the majority of Jobs' net worth at around $6.5 billion to $7 billion from his sale of Pixar to the Walt Disney Company in 2006. However if Jobs had not sold his Apple shares in 1985, when he left the company he founded and helmed for over a decade, his net worth would have been a staggering $36 billion.

Wife and Children

Jobs and Laurene Powell married on March 18, 1991. The pair met in the early 1990s at Stanford business school, where Powell was an MBA student. They lived together in Palo Alto, California, with their three children: Reed, Erin, and Eve.

Jobs also fathered a daughter, Lisa, with girlfriend Chrisann Brennan in 1978, when he was 23. He denied paternity of his daughter in court documents, claiming he was sterile.

Lisa Brennan Jobs later wrote of her childhood and relationship with Jobs in her book Small Fry, published in 2018. In 1980, Lisa wrote, DNA tests revealed that she and Jobs were a match, and he was required to begin making paternity payments to her financially struggling mother. Jobs did not initiate a relationship with his daughter until she was 7 years old. When she was a teenager, Lisa came to live with her father.

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Battle with Cancer

In 2003, Jobs discovered that he had a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare but operable form of pancreatic cancer. Instead of immediately opting for surgery, Jobs chose to alter his pesco-vegetarian diet while weighing Eastern treatment options.

For nine months, Jobs postponed surgery, making Apple's board of directors nervous. Executives feared that shareholders would pull their stock if word got out that their CEO was ill. But in the end, Jobs' confidentiality took precedence over shareholder disclosure.

In 2004, Jobs had successful surgery to remove the pancreatic tumor. True to form, in subsequent years Jobs disclosed little about his health.

Early in 2009, reports circulated about Jobs' weight loss, some predicting his health issues had returned, which included a liver transplant. Jobs responded to these concerns by stating he was dealing with a hormone imbalance. Days later, he went on a six-month leave of absence.

In an email message to employees, Jobs said his "health-related issues are more complex" than he thought, then named Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, as "responsible for Apple's day-today operations."

After nearly a year out of the spotlight, Jobs delivered a keynote address at an invite-only Apple event on September 9, 2009. He continued to serve as master of ceremonies, which included the unveiling of the iPad, throughout much of 2010.

In January 2011, Jobs announced he was going on medical leave. In August, he resigned as CEO of Apple, handing the reins to Cook.

Steve Jobs' Death and Last Words

Jobs died in Palo Alto on October 5, 2011, after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly a decade. He was 56 years old.

In a eulogy for Jobs, sister Mona Simpson wrote that just before dying, Jobs looked for a long time at his sister, Patty, then his wife and children, then past them, and said his last words: "OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW."

Movies

Jobs' life was the subject of two films: 2013's Jobs, starring Ashton Kutcher as Jobs, and 2015's Steve Jobs, with Michael Fassbender playing the Apple co-founder.

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