Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs


The real parents of Steve Jobs were, Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, two University of Wisconsin graduate students who for unknown reasons gave their unnamed son up for adoption. His father Abdulfattah Jandali was a Syrian political science professor and his mother Joanne Simpson worked as a speech therapist. Shortly after Steve was placed for adoption, hisbiological parents married and had another child, Mona Simpson. It was not until Jobs was 27 that he was able to uncover information on his biological parents.
Steven Jobs was born February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California
Steve grew up in the apricot orchards which later became known as Silicon Valley, and still lives there with his family., he was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs ,Clara workedas an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist.. As a boy Steve was quite a turbulent child. He really didn’t care about school for some time — until he reached the 4th grade, and had Imogene “Teddy” Hill as a teacher., Jobs and his father would work on electronics in the family garage. Paul would show his son how to take apart and reconstruct electronics, a hobby whichinstilled confidence, tenacity, and mechanical prowess in young Jobs. He grew up with one sister, Patty. Jobs remembers his father as being very skilled at working with his hands.
Jobs has always been an intelligent and innovative thinker since he was a kid, his youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. In elementary school he was a prankster whose fourth grade teacher needed to bribehim to study. Jobs tested so well, however, that administrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school—a proposal his parents declined.
When Steve arrived in Homestead High School, he enrolled in a popular electronics class. McCollum later recalled of one time when his pupil Steve called up Bill Hewlett himself, co-founder of HP, to get spare parts for his homework, and even a summer job at HP’sfactory. Steve’s entrepreneurial skills showed up early in his life indeed.
At Homestead, Steve befriended Bill Fernandez, a neighbor who shared his interests in electronics. It was Bill who first introduced him to another computer whiz kid, an older guy named Stephen Wozniak, or — as everybody used to call him — Woz. Steve and Woz met in 1969, when they were respectively 14 and 19. At the time,Woz was building a little computer board with Bill Fernandez that they called “the Cream Soda Computer”. Woz showed it to Steve, who seemed quite interested.

After high school, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Lacking direction, he dropped out of college. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how collegewas going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on theones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.
Stanford Commencement Address, 12 Jun 2005

Jobs had realized there was a huge gap inthe computer market. At that time almost all computers were mainframes. They were so large that one could fill a room, and so costly that individuals could not afford to buy them. Advances in electronics, however, meant that computer components were getting smaller and the power of the computer was increasing.
Jobs and Wozniak redesigned their computer, with the idea of selling it to...