The Life Of Steve Jobs Steve Jobs was born on February 24th, 1955

Born as Steven Paul Jobs Born in San Francisco, California

Steve Jobs was born to two unmarried university students whose parents objected their relationship

He was forcefully put up for adoption and later, adopted by Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922-1993) and Clara Jobs (1924-1986)

The Jobs family moved from San Francisco to Mountain View, California when Steve was only five years old

Steve went to Monta Loma Elementary School and was recommended to skip 2 grades by school officials, but his parents only allowed him to skip one

After Elementary School, Jobs was enrolled at Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California

After Steve graduated from High School, he went to Reed College in Portland Oregon

Since the College was so expensive for his parents, he dropped out

Early Life

In 1974, Jobs took a job as a technician for Atari Inc. in Los Gatos, California

Jobs visited India in mid-1974 to practice Mysticism After staying in India for seven months, he left On return to America, Jobs continued to work for Atari Inc. to

work on a new circuit board for the arcade game Breakout Jobs had no knowledge about circuit boards, so he called up

his friend Steve Wozniak from High School to help him for some of the profit

In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak formed their own business, “Apple Computer Company”

Apple started off selling circuit boards

Early Career

In 1976, Steve Wozniak single handedly invented the Apple 1 Computer

In 1978, Apple recruited Mike Scott from National Semiconductor to be CEO for Apple

In 1983, Jobs attracted John Sculley away from Pepsi-Cola saying, “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world?”

Apple employee Jef Raskin later invented the Macintosh Jobs resigned from Apple after losing a debate with John

Sculley

Apple

After leaving Apple, Jobs founded NeXT Computer Company with $7 million

A year later, Jobs almost went bankrupt, but billionaire Ross Perot invested in his company

NeXT workstations were first released in 1990 selling for $9,999

In 1996, Apple announced that they would buy NeXT for $427 million

Jobs came back to Apple as de facto chief

NeXT

In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with CancerSteve Jobs’ blood pressure was 110/70 while

having CancerSteve Jobs died in his California home around

3PM on October 5th, 2011

Death

Steve Jobs’ biological sister is famous novelist Mona Simpson

While in Elementary School, Jobs frequently played pranks on other students

In 1986, Steve Jobs bought Pixar, makers of many great movies such as The Toy Story Series, A Bug’s Life, Cars, and many others

Trivia

The first iMac was released in 1998The first iPod was released in 2001The first iPhone was released in 2007

Apple Products

Steve Jobs’ inventions have changed the lives of millions of people around the world by giving them entertainment through devices and movies

His creations will live on forever and Apple will continue to make new Apple devices (New iPhones ;D)

Impact On Society