Steve Jobs Marissa Parks

Steve Jobs was born, February 24, 1955. He was given up for adoption when he was born. His parents were graduates of the University of Wisconsin. He finally found out some stuff about his biological parents when he was 27. He was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and they gave him the name of Steve Paul Jobs. They lived in the mountains of Californa. Him and his father would take apart and put together electronics in their family garage. When he was in elementary school he would mess around and his fourth grade teacher would have to bribe him to get him to study. The administators wanted him to skip to high school but his parents didn't. After he enrolled into high school he dropped out ofcdomputer club. He developed great respect for the advisor, Steve Wozniak. Steve then enrolled into Reed College in Portlan, Oregon. He dropped out of college in the first semester.in 1974, he was oe of the designers of Atari.
When he was just 21 years old him and Wozniak stared Apple Computers. They are recognized with revolutionizing the computer industry. The personal computers were $666.66 each. The next several Apple products got recalled and comsumer disappointment. In 1984 Apple released the Macintosh. The Macintosh was still not compatable with IBM. Scully believed that Jobs was hurting Apple.
In 1985, Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO and then sarted a hardware software company called NeXT. the next year Steve purchased an animation company from George Lucas and named it Pixar Animation Studios. Jobs invested $50 million of his money into the company. Pixar produced Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles. In 2006 the studio merged with Walt Disney and Steve was now Disney's largest shareholder. NeXT did not do as well as Pixar. Apple eventually bought NeXT for $429 million in 1997. In that same year Apple reassigned Steve as CEO of Apple. Steve made products like the iMAC which put Apple back on track.
In 2006 Steve found out that he had cancer, a neuroendocine tumor. That is a type of rare pancreatic cancer. Jobs postpone his sugery for nine months! This made Apple very nervous. Executives feared that the other shareholders would pull their stocks if they knew that their CEO was sick. But after all he was able to take precedence over shareholder disclosure. In 2004 he finally got his surgery.
In reacent years Apple has designed stuff like the Macbook Air, iPod and the iPhone. After Apple released these products the other companies tried to meet Apple's standards. The stocks were worth $199.99 a share. The company boasted on there $1.58 billion dollar profit.
In 2008 iTunes became the second largest retailer in America. Thyey had 200 million iPods sold and 6 billion songs downloaded. Apple is number 1 in the most admired companies.
In 2009 he had to have a liver transplant. He became a private person who rarely discloses about his framily.