Melissa Van Cott

Mrs. Godfrey

Honors Leadership

27 September 2019

Steve Jobs Biographical Research

❏ Full Name

❏ Steve Job’s full name is Steve Paul Jobs

❏ Lifespan

❏ Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California

❏ He died on October 5th in 2011in Palo Alto, California

❏ Cause of death: pancreatic cancer

❏ Early Family Background and Created Family Structure

❏ Born in San Francisco, California, to Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble,

Steve was put up for adoption and taken in and raised by Paul and Clara Jobs

❏ The family lived in San Francisco in Mountain View, a suburban town in

Santa Clara county, also known as Silicon Valley

❏ At the young age of 13 years old, Steve Jobs makes a call to Bill Hewlett and

earns himself a Summer jobs at the HP factory

❏ In the early 1950s, when Steve was growing up, Santa Clara County would

become known as Silicon Valley

❏ Jobs grew up surrounded by semiconductor companies with engineers

working on technology which sparked his interest in the field

 ❏ At the age of 13 Jobs met 18 year old Steve Wozniak, a whizkid in the field of

technology

❏ Jobs attended Reed College before dropping out after one semester due to lack of

interest in his classes and college life

❏ He moved to a hippie commune in Oregon where the main activity was

cultivating apples

❏ A couple months later Jobs would return to California in search of work

❏ He was hired as a videogame maker for Atari

❏ After returning from a trip in India with friends, Jobs and Wozniak

collaborate in the startup of the Apple computer

❏ Personality Characteristics and Areas of Aptitude, Talent, and Interest

❏ “Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations

that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because

of Steve”

❏ Steve Jobs thrived on his intelligence, he had a different way of thinking

from everyone else

❏ Throughout his life it is clear that he had a passion for developing

technology, he wanted to create

❏ Even though Jobs dropped out of college he followed his passion and eventually

found something to do that he loved

❏ He paved the way for technology, the start of a new age, something that is both

innovative and creative as technology was sparse during his time

❏ Major Career/Professional Events and Accomplishments

❏ Inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2007

❏ Founder of the multibillion dollar company ​Apple ​with his good friend Steve

Wozniak

❏ Named most powerful person in business by Fortune Magazine

❏ The governor of California, Jerry Brown, declared October 16th as “Steve Jobs

Day”

❏ Acted as a mentor to Sergy Brin and Larry Page, the founders of ​Google

❏ The introduction of smartphones to the world which was named Invention of the

Year in 2007 by Times Magazine

❏ Personal Life Themes/Beliefs

❏ He was innovative, he was not afraid to try and create new things

❏ He thought outside of the box, he wanted to do something that others had not

done before

❏ He was intelligent, although he did not value a formal education he is well known

for his knowledgeability

❏ He went after his dreams, he dropped out of school in search of something

meaningful

❏ He was very detail oriented, he wanted to make something that all people could

use

❏ He went out and he did things, he was not afraid to fail, only afraid to be doing

nothing
 ❏ He was innovative, he wanted to inspire others to spark their own creativity

❏ He was humble, he did not care about the money, only that what he was doing

mattered to others

❏ Selected Quotations (at least two)

❏ “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

❏ “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night

saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me

❏ “Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.”

❏ “The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that

change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person.”

❏ “If you don’t love it, you’re going to fail.”

❏ Awards and Recognition

❏ In 1985 Steve Jobs was awarded with the National Medal of Technology and

Innovation

❏ He received the Grammy Trustees Award in 2012

❏ Recipient of the PGA Vanguard Award for his achievements in new media and

technology

❏ In 2011, Steve Jobs was awarded with the Bravo Otto-Social Media Star Award

❏ Named Person of the Year by Financial Times in 2010

❏ Fortune Magazine named Steve Jobs CEO of the Year in 2009

❏ Works Cited
❏ TheGrio. “Apple: Company Co-Founder Steve Jobs Has Died.” ​TheGrio​,

TheGrio, 6 Oct. 2011,

https://thegrio.com/2011/10/05/apple-company-co-founder-steve-jobs-has-died/​.

❏ “Timeline: All about Steve Jobs.com.” ​Timeline | All about Steve Jobs.com,​

https://allaboutstevejobs.com/bio/timeline​.

❏ “Steve Jobs.” ​Biography​,​ ​https://www.biography.com/business-figure/steve-jobs​.

❏ “Steve Jobs | Biography, Apple, & Facts.” ​Encyclopedia Britannica,​

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Steve-Jobs​.