Early life and Education Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24th, 1955.

His parents were unmarried college students named Joanne Schieble and Syrian Jandali. They decided to put their child up for adoption because Joannes family would not support them. Jobs new adoptive parents were named Paul Reinhold Jobs and Clara Jobs. Paul worked as a machinist and Clara was an accountant. Jobs felt that Paul and Clara were his true parents, even though they were not his birth parents. Jobs family moved from San Francisco to Mountain View, California when he was five years old. Paul and Clara later adopted a second child, Jobs younger sister Patti. Jobs studied at Monta Loma Elementary, Mountain View, Cupertine Junior High, and Homestead High School. After he graduated high school in 1972, Steve went to Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He dropped out of Reed after only one semester. However, he decided to stay around the school. He continued to sit in classes even though he was no longer enrolled. He slept on his friends floors, returned cans for money, and got free food from a local Hare Krishna temple. Steve later talked about his time at college by saying if I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. 1. Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 25th 1955 2. He was adopted by two unmarried students 3. Jobs moved to California when he was five years old 4. Jobs dropped out of high school. 5. He ate free meals at a local temple 6. He never took any classes at Reed College.

Career. Jobs was introduced to Steve Wozniak in 1971. They founded their own computer company and worked out of Jobs parents garage. At first, Jobs was very difficult to work with and sales went down. Jobs had a very difficult working relationship with Sculley. On May 24th, 1985 Sculley called a board meeting to address Steves behavior. Apples board of directors decided to remove Jobs from his position as head of the Macintosh division. Jobs left work at Apple five months later and founded NeXT Inc. that same year.

NeXT Computer Jobs founded NeXT Computer in 1985 after he left Apple. Only a year later, Jobs began to run out of money and he hadnt created a new, interesting product yet. He decided to appeal to venture capital. Pixar and Disney In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (which would later be renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilms computer graphics division. The company cost 10 million dollars. Return to Apple. In 1996 Apple announced that it would buy NeXT for $427 million. This purchase allowed Jobs to return to the company that he co-founded. The company then branched out by introducing and improving its other digital products. With the introduction of the iPod, iTunes, and the iTunes Store the company advanced into consumer electronics and music distribution. On June 29th, 2007, Apple also entered the cellular phone business when it introduced its newest product, the iPhone. In August 2011, Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, but continued with his job as chairman of the board. 1. Jobs and Steve Wozniak met in 1971 2. Jobs resigned from Apple founded NeXT Computer in 1985 3. Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) in 1986. 4. Apple bought NeXT in 1996 6. Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007