This Day in History: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dies in 2011

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Co-founder of Apple Inc. Steve Jobs died of complications from pancreatic cancer at the age of 56 on Oct. 5, 2011.

We started Apple because we wanted the product ourselves. We didn't start out to build *** large company. We started out to build *** few dozen computers for us and our friends.Steve Jobs — an American inventor, entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. — died of complications from pancreatic cancer at the age of 56 on Oct. 5, 2011.Jobs was born on Feb. 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California. He was adopted as a baby by Paul and Clara Jobs.

Jobs graduated from high school in Cupertino, California, in 1972. Afterward, he attended Reed College, a liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon, for one semester before dropping out. He then worked for video game maker Atari and then traveled to India to study Zen Buddhism. "We started Apple because we wanted the product ourselves," Jobs said in 1991."We didn't start out to build a large company. We started out to build a few dozen computers for us and our friends."Apple went public in 1980, and Jobs, then in his mid-20s, became a multimillionaire.

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