- Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (born February 24, 1955) was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California who named him Steven Paul.
- Jobs' biological parents, Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali, a graduate student from Syria who became a political science professor, later married and gave birth to Job's biological sister, the novelist Mona Simpson
- Jobs attended Cupertino Junior High School and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, and frequented after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California. He was soon hired there and worked with Steve Wozniak (Who was a co-founder of Apple Inc) as a summer employee
- In 1972, Jobs graduated from high school and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon and dropped out after one semester
- In 1974, he took a job as a technician at Atari, a manufacturer of popular video games, with the primary intent of saving money for a spiritual retreat to India.
- Jobs then traveled to India with a Reed College friend (and, later, the first Apple employee), Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment. He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing
- In 1976, Steve Jobs, Stephen Wozniak, Ronald Wayne , and later with funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing manager and engineer A.C. "Mike" Markkula Jr., founded Apple
- In 1978, Apple recruited Mike Scottfrom National Semiconductor to serve as CEO for several turbulent years.
- In 1983, Steve Jobs lured John Sculley away from Pepsi-Cola to serve as Apple's CEO
- And in May 1985 – following an internal power struggle and an announcement of significant layoffs – Sculley relieved Jobs of his duties as head of the Macintosh division as a result Jobs resigned from Apple Inc
- Same time Jobs founded another computer company, NeXT Computer. Jobs marketed NeXT products to the scientific and academic fields because of the innovative, experimental new technologies it incorporated (such as the Mach kernel, the digital signal processor chip, and the built-in Ethernet port)
- During that time Jobs innovated many products like NeXTcube(Next gen personal computer),NeXTMail(One of the first email of that time to provide graphics and audio in an email), NeXTSTEP/Intel OS(Which later was renamed as Mac OS X)
- In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for the price of $10 million
- In 1996, Apple announced that it would buy NeXT for $429 million. The deal was finalized in late 1996,[45] bringing Jobs back to the company he co-founded. He soon became Apple's interim CEO
- In the years 2003 and 2004, as Pixar's contract with Disney was running out without any future renewal possibility, In October 2005, Bob Iger replaced Eisner at Disney, and Iger quickly worked to patch up relations with Steve Jobs and Pixar
- On January 24, 2006, Jobs and Iger announced that Disney had agreed to purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion making Jobs the biggest stakeholder in Walt Disney with 7% shares, way more shares than Eisner, who holds 1.7%, and Disney family member Roy E. Disney, who held about 1%
- Since then we already know what apple has contributed to the world. iMac, iPhone, iPod, iTouch, iPad are just to name a few.
- His biographies include Mike Moritz's The Little Kingdom, one of the few authorized biographies of Jobs; Jeffrey S. Young's unauthorized Steve Jobs: The Journey Is the Reward; The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, by Alan Deutschman; and iCon: Steve Jobs, by Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon.
-His favorite quote
"There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will."
—Steve Jobs
- "My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people."
—Steve Jobs
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