Steven Jobs Megan Crisafulli

Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 to two graduate students who gave their unnamed son up for adoption. Shortly after he was placed for adoption he learned that his biological parents got married and had another child named Mona Simpson. It was not until he was 27 that he was able to find information on his biological parents.When he was little he was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and they named him Steven Paul Jobs. Clara was an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist. They lived in Mountain View within California's Silicone Valley. When Steven was a boy his father would show him how to construct and take apart electronics. Even though Jobs was intelligent and innovative thinker, he was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling in his youth. In the fourth grade he was a prankster whose teacher had to bribe him to study. But Jobs tested so well that the administrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school, yet his parents declined. During high school he spent most of his time at Hewlett-Packard and befriended a computer club guru Steve Wozniak ,a brilliant computer engineer, and the two developed a great respect for one another. After high school Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. After six months he dropped out of college and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes. In 1974, Jobs took up a position as a video game designer with Atari.

In 1976, when Steven was just 21, he and Wonziak started Apple Computers. At first they started in Jobs family garage and they got the money that founded them when Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wonziak sold his beloved scientific calculator. Both of them are now credited for making the technology smaller, cheaper, and accessible to the everyday consumers. The two made a series of personal computers that they initially sold for $666.66 and their first model, the Apple 1, earned them 774,000. Three years after the release of their second model, Apple 2, sales increased by 700 percent and they earned $139 million dollars. However the next several products suffered some flaws resulting in recalls and consumer disappointment. IBM suddenly surpassed Apple sales and Apple had to compete with the IBM/PC business world. Scully believed Jobs was hurting Apple and the executives were phasing him out.

In 1985, Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO and began a new hardware and software company called NeXT, Inc. He also purchased an animation company which is now Pixar Animation Studios. Despite the success that Pixar had, NeXT, Inc. floundered its attempts to sell its specialized operating system to mainstream America. Eventually Apple bought NeXt in 1997 for $429 million. That same year Jobs returned to his post. Apple has introduced such revolutionary products as the Macbook Air , iPod, and iPhone. In 2007, the quarterly reports were the most impressive statistics to date and stocks were worth a record-breaking $199.99 a share! In 2008, iTunes became the second biggest music retailer in America. Apple's current revenue comes from iTunes and iPod sales, with 200 million iPods sold and six billion songs downloaded.

In respect to his personal life, Steve Jobs remains a private man who rarely discloses information about his family. All we know is that Jobs fathered a daughter with his girlfriend Chrisann Brennan when he was 23, but in the early 1990's, Jobs met Laurene Powell at Stanford business school , where Powell was an MBA student. They married on March 18, 1991, and currently live in Palo Alto, California, with their three children.

Information from: Biography.com/StevenJobs