Steve Jobs- Claire Campbell

Steven Paul Jobs was born to Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali on February 24, 1955. Jobs parents put him up for adoption then later on got married and had another child. Jobs was adopted as an infant by Clara and Paul Jobs, and that is who named him. They all lived in Mountain View within the California Silicone Valley. Steven's new dad would work on electronics in the garage like taking things apart and putting them back together again.



Jobs was very smart. The administrates wanted to move him up to high school, but his parents keep him down. Once he enrolled in high school he spent most of his time at Hewlett-Packyard, and it was there that Jobs made a beautiful friendship with a computer guru Steve Wozniak. Later on after high school jobs enrolled into Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and dropped out after just six months.



Atari had a position for Jobs in 1974, which several months later Jobs left and went to India for spiritual enlightenment. Wozniak and Jobs started Apple in 1976. The two advanced different technologies, and made user-friendly personal computers that sold around $666.66. The Apple 1 sold for $774,000.00, and later on they came out with Apple 2 that sold for $139 million dollars. Market value and trade increased so Jobs found John Scully a marketing expert from Pepsi-Cola to help as the Apple president.

Apple started to fail with some electronics, but in 1984 Apple came out with Macintosh which help them a little just not enough to pass IBM. John Scully thought that Jobs was the reason for there decline.

Steven Jobs resigned as the CEO of Apple in 1985 when in that time he began a new project to develop a new hardware and software company called Next Inc. Jobs later purchased what is now known as Pixar. They gained $4 million dollars with the creations of Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles

Apple soon purchased Next with the welcoming of Steven Jobs back as Apple's CEO. 1970's was great for Apple and Steven Jobs. With improvements Apple got better and better exspeacily with the inventing ofthe iMac. In 2003 Jobs discovered he had some health problems which in his case was pancreatic cancer. Jobs did not want surgery so he continued on improving his diet which made Apple board of directors worried. He soon gave in and had a successful surgery.

Apple later came out with Macbook Air, iPod, and iPhone. In 2008 iTunes became 2nd best music provider, but with more improvements they got up to #1. Once again Jobs found some health problems, but after a liver transplant he was fine. Steven Jobs now lives in Palo Alto, California with his wife and 3 children.