Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs born on February 24, 1995 in San Francisco, California. Both his parents Abdulfattah “John” Jandali & Joanne Simpson were two graduates from University of Wisconsin. His father Abdulfattah Jandali worked as a Syrian political science professor and his mother, Joanne Simpson, worked as a speech therapist. Although Jobs parents were both graduate students and highly agile people, there decision did not show any wisdom. Steve Jobs was the result from an unwanted pregnancy. When Joanne Simpson, became pregnant her father and mother oppose her to marry Jandali since he was Syrian. Therefore, Joanne Simpson decided to put Jobs up for adoption. Abdulfattah Jandali never wanted to put Jobs for adoption, but he respected her futile decision.
As a toddler, Steve was by Clara and Paul Jobs. Both his parents came to an agreement to name him Steven Paul Jobs; Paul for his middle name and his father’s name. Clara Jobs, Steve Jobs step mother, worked as an accountant and Paul Jobs, Steve Jobs stepfather, who was a Coast Guard veteran and also a machinist. The Jobs family lived in the Western part of the U.S. where they had Mountain View within California’s Silicon Valley.
As a child, Jobs and his father Paul would work on electronics in a part of their home known as the family garage. In this family garage, Paul would show his son, Steven Jobs, how to take apart and reconstruct electronics, an avocation that built up confidence, firmness and mechanical prowess in the youthful life of Jobs.
Steve Jobs childhood in school was normal as any usual kid. Before he reached fourth grade for some reason, he was quite a turbulent child. He seemed to be careless about school for some time, but then he reached 4th grade. Imogene...

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... vision was to develop computer with affordable cost and easy to use. Bill Gates is a very energetic and enthusiastic person. Microsoft became a success company because of Gates way of motivating people and involving them to work with him. For Steve Jobs his style of leading was different from Gates, he was more of an arbitrary person.

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