Biography of Steve Paul Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24th, 1955 in San Francisco to his birth parents, Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble. Steve was set to be adopted when he was born because his birth mother’s father didn’t want her to marry Abdulfattah. Joanne’s father was old and dying and threatened to disown her if she married Abdulfattah. So instead of raising Steve together they planned to have him adopted by college graduates. Unfortunately when Steve was born the planned adoptive parents decided to not go through with the deal because they wanted a girl instead, which left Joanne looking for someone else to fill that roll. She found Paul and Clara Jobs. Both Paul and Clara were high school dropouts. When Joanne learned about this she refused to sign the adoption papers. In order for her to agree to sign the adoption papers Paul and Clara made a pledge they would fund a savings account to pay for the boy’s college education. Jandali and Schieble subsequently married in December of 1955 and had Stevae’s biological sister, Mona Simpson, several years later. Steve Jobs was the co-founder, chairman, CEO of Apple Inc., co-founder and CEO of Pixar, and Founder and CEO of NeXT Inc. From an early age, Steve was interested in technology. He loved working on electronics with his friend Steve Wozniak “Woz” and had a job at Hewlett-Packard when he was a teenager. On April 1, 1976 Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne created Apple. The company started off running in Steve’s parent’s garage. The company started off selling the Apple I, a computer. Apple continued to slowly progress until the Macintosh was released on January, 1984. The Macintosh was the first personal computer to have a Graphical User Interface (GUI) instead of a programming language...

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...e’s advancements were substantial and necessary for technology to be where it is today. I couldn’t imagine not having the Apple products that I have because of the way they have impacted my life. I feel that there is a lot more that Apple has in store for the future. I think there are a lot of products that are going to create or change an industry just like the first Mac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad did. Steve left behind so many great ideas and things he created. He is remembered for all the great things such as how he changed the way people listen to music, the computer they use, created a tablet which people didn’t even think they needed, changed the phone people use, and what that phone can do. He changed and revolutionized so many things in this world. Most importantly, Steve started the world’s most valuable company and brand to this date, in his parent’s garage.