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Steve Jobs

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Steven Paul Jobs was an American information technology entreprene and I

I inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) 1 I of Apple Inc. Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, he was adopted at birth in San Francisco, and raised in San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s. 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 few years later, while Jobs was enrolled at Homestead High School, he was introduced to his future partner Steve Wozniak. In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari. In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computer. Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the I computer industry by making machines smaller, I cheaper, and accessible to consumers. Jobs in 1 charge of marketing Apple initially marketed the 1 computers for $666.66 each. The Apple I earned the I 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. Jobs left Apple in 1985 to begin a new hardware and software enterprise called NeXT, Inc. The following year Jobs purchased an animation company which later became Pixar ! Animation Studios. The studio merged with Walt Disney in 2006, making Jobs 1 Disney's largest shareholder. In 1996, Jobs returned to his post as Apple's CEO. I 1 Jobs put Apple back on track. Apple introduced products as the Macbook Air, I 1 iPod and iPhone, all of which have dictated the evolution of modern technology. I In 2008, iTunes became the second-biggest music retailer in America.

In the early 1990s; Jobs met Laurene Powell and they married on March 18, 1991, and lived in Palo Alto, California, with their three children. Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003 and died of respiratory arrest related to the tumor on October 5, 2011. Palo Alto. He was 56 years old.

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2. Underline five sentences in the passage that support the idea.

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