Yesterday Steve Jobs, SEO of Apple company was chosen The CEO of the Decade. He got booted from his company in the 1980s, returned in the 1990s, and in the following decade survived two fights with death and one securities-law scandal. He became the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley.
From the garage where it all started to his recent battle with cancer: a collection of hard-to-find photos of the Apple CEO.


At age 21, in 1976, Steve Jobs co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in Jobs' family garage in Los Altos, Calif. Jobs' father removed his car restoration equipment and brought home a wooden workbench that served as Apple's first manufacturing base. Jobs returned to the empty garage in 1996 to be photographed for Fortune.


Jobs with Steve Wozniak in 1979, posing for Life magazine with the Apple II, Apple's first breakthrough product.


The First MacJobs and his team — seated around Apple's conference room table in its Cupertino headquarters — work on the Macintosh computer over lunch in 1982. The landmark computer would be released two years later.


Known for not buying furniture, Jobs was photographed in his Los Gatos, Calif., living room for Time magazine in 1982.


Jobs poses with the Macintosh computer, introduced in January 1984 at Apple's annual meeting. The iconic «1984» commercial — portraying a monolithic IBM — airs during the Super Bowl.


Jobs and Apple CEO John Sculley sit on a Central Park bench in 1984 with the Macintosh under wraps in its case. A year later, Jobs was ousted from Apple. He later launched a computer company called Next, where he stayed for 12 years before returning to Apple in 1997. Scully remained CEO of Apple until 1993.


Jobs with Next employees on the bus after a visit to the company's unfinished factory in Fremont, Calif., in 1987. Next's first computer is released a year later.


Jobs and the Next board of directors meet in the company's Fremont factory in 1987. Ross Perot, the Texas entrepreneur who later ran for U.S. president, is seated fifth from the left in a dark suit, directly across from Jobs. Perot provided venture capital for Next.


In 1991, Fortune invited Jobs and Bill Gates to discuss the PC's future. Jobs was leading Next, and Gates was already a billionaire. They met at Jobs' Palo Alto home on a Sunday evening.


Jobs walks to his hotel with Apple colleagues after the 1997 MacWorld Expo in Boston, following his return to Apple. Later that year he launches the «Think Different» advertising campaign, which is often credited for Apple's turnaround.


Reclining in Apple's boardroom in 2000, Jobs talks to senior vice president for software engineering Avie Tevanian (center), who led development of Mac OS X.


Steve Jobs sat in this chair every day at his home as he recovered from pancreatic cancer treatment in 2004. He had surgery in July of that year to remove a tumor.

From the Fortune magazine.