News Summary

• The improbable odyssey began April 1, 1976, when a then-shaggy Steve Jobs founded Apple.
• Jobs, a 21-year-old college dropout, and Wozniak, 25, each received a 45% stake in Apple.
• With its sales booming, Apple went public in late 1980 at $22 per share.
• After casting aside Jobs in a bitter 1985 breakup, the tech firm engineered a surprise deal that brought back its exiled cofounder in 1997. and masterminded an innovation factory that churned out the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad.