by Greg Switzer and Cameron Mount

 Born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955 to

Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah John Jandali
 A week after he was born, he was put up for
adoption by his mother. He was adopted by Paul and
Clara Jobs of Mountain View, Santa Clara County,
California
 They gave him the name “Steven Paul Jobs”
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 He attended Cupertino Middle School and Homestead High School, both in

Cupertino, California
 He attended after school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company, where he was
later hired. He worked there with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee
 After high school, he attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon for one semester,
and then dropped out
 Two years later, in 1974, he started going to meetings for the “Homebrew
Computer Club” with Steve Wozniak in California
 Jobs took a job at Atari, a popular video game company, as a technician, hoping to
save enough money for a spiritual retreat to India
 He came back from the trip, head shaved, wearing traditional Indian clothing, and
ready to go back to Atari. He was given the job of creating the circuit board for the
game “Breakout”, and $100 for each chip he could reduce. He gave the job to
Wozniak, who created a design so tight, the assembly line couldn’t do it, and
reduced the design by 50 chips
 After Jobs saw a computer Wozniak had designed,
he decided to turn it into a business. On April 1, 1976,
the Apple Computer Co. was formed
 Their first PC, the Apple I, sold for $666.66, and was
released in 1976
 The Apple II, which was released the next year, was a
huge success
 In May of 1980, they released the Apple III. It wasn’t
as popular, but that same year, Apple became a
publicly traded corporation, greatly expanding Jobs’
company
 Steve Jobs was the founder and inspiration for the Apple Company, but he was
slowly pushed out for “aggressive and underhanded tactics”
 Employees said he had a temper, and was usually stubborn
 After an internal power struggle, he was eventually kicked off the board of
directors
 Jobs protested and resigned, even though he stayed the chairmen for some time.
He was so upset, he sold all but one of his Apple shares
 During this time, Jobs bought what became “Pixar” from Lucasfilm for $5 million
 He also started the computer company “NeXT Computer”
 Though it never went very mainstream, due to high costs, it was responsible for
many important innovations, including “NeXTMail”, Jobs’ email program that
supported embedded graphics and sounds and the original World Wide Web
system
 Apple bought NeXT in 1996, bringing Jobs back to
Apple
 When the CEO in 1997, Gil Amelio, was thrown out,
Jobs took his place
 To show how profitable he could make Apple again,
he released a number of new items like the Newton,
Cyberdog, and OpenDoc
 The coming years brought many new products,
including Mac OS X, the iMac, the iPod, and iTunes
 Steve is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "Lowest Paid Chief
Executive Officer”, with a salary of just $1. However, gifts like a $46 million jet and
just under 30 million shares of restricted stock make him very well off to say the
least
 Pixar, which Jobs bought in 1986, has been responsible for films such as “Toy
Story”, “Finding Nemo”, and “The Incredibles”.
 Relations with Disney were getting tough, though, and Jobs announced that they
would find a new partner in 2004. But, when Eisner was replaced by Bob Iger in
2005, he improved relations, and Disney bought Pixar for $7.4 billion.
 This made Steve Jobs the largest single shareholder of the Walt Disney Company,
with 7% of the stock
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 Steve married Laurene Powell on March 18, 1991,

and had 3 children
 In 2004, Jobs announced that he had a tumor in
his pancreas. It was a less threatening type of
pancreatic cancer, however, and on July 31, he
had surgery to remove the tumor. He did not
need further chemotherapy or radiation therapy
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
 http://www.romain-moisescot.com/steve/
 http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/jobs.html
 http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Jobs.html
 http://www.answers.com/topic/steve-jobs
 Pictures
 http://www.macminute.com/images/db/podbrixkeynote2.jpg
 http://www.macmonkies.com/Etc/Steve_Jobs_1920.jpg
 http://veerle.duoh.com/images/uploads/steve_jobs.jpg
 http://aurejac.dyndns.org/jobs1984.jpg
 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/images/steve_jobs_young-thumb.gif
 http://www.1000bit.net/storia/images/apple/jobs_wozniack_young.jpg
 http://www.code.uni-wuppertal.de/uk/hci/hci_picts/next_logo.jpg
 http://graphics.cs.ucr.edu/images/logoPixar.jpg
 http://www.collegetrack.org/images/laurene_podium.jpg
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