Steven Jobs Madison Sauls

Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24,1995, to Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali. Later on he was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs, who also named him. He grew up in Mountain Valley, which is in California's Silicone Valley. When Steven was a boy, he and his father would work on electronics in their garage. In school, he was basically forced to study, but he tested so well they wanted to skip him on to high school, but his parents turned the offer down. He enrolled years later in Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but soon dropped out after 6 months. In 1974, he took a job as a video game designer for Atari, but soon he left for India months later for spiritual enlightenment. In 1976, he and Wozniak started Apple Computers. They made many computers that they sold for $666.66 each. He later asked John Scully, from the Pepsi-Cola company, to assume role as Apple's president. In 1985 he resigned from being CEO at Apple and began a new company called NeXT, inc. In 1997 he was appointed his job back at Apple. Apple soon bought over NeXT, inc. He has helped with the production of Macbook Air, iPods, iPhones, and everything in between. He now lives in Palo Alto, California, with his three children and his wife, Laurene Powell.