1. Steve Jobs 1955-2011 by Kate Henry

2. Early life Given up for adoption at birth Adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs Dropped out of college and went to India. Worked for Atari making electronics for video games.

3. Apple Founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976. Apple I 1976 200 sold One sold for $390,000 in 2013 Apple II 1977 6 million sold Made Jobs rich Macintosh 1984 Over 200 million sold Made Jobs mega-rich Left Apple in 1985 after disagreement with other managers.

4. NeXT Set up another computer company called NeXT. The world’s first website was developed on a NeXT. Sold NeXT to Apple in 1996 for $427 million.

5. Pixar Bought Pixar for $10 million in 1986. Produced lots of successful movies. Sold Pixar in 2006 for $7.4 billion.

6. Back to Apple Jobs came back to Apple in 1997. The company was losing a lot of money but he changed all that with: iMac iPod iPhone iPad Now Apple is one of the most successful companies in the world.

7. Final years He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003. He had a liver transplant in 2009. He left Apple because of illness in August 2011 and died on October 5 2011, aged 56.