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Early life
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
Education
His skills became so apparent that he was allowed to skip 5th grade and go straight to middle school. When he became 11 years old he moved to Los Altos that distinguished by its great number of engineers garages. At Homestead High, he attended his first electronics class and befriended Bill Fernande Fernandez happened to know an electronics whiz whose name was Steve Wozniak.
Apple I
Though their initial plan was to sell just printed circuit boards, Jobs and Wozniak ended up creating a batch of completely assembled computers, and entered the personal computer business. The first PC Jobs and Wozniak introduced called the Apple I sold for $666.66
Apple II
In 1977, Woz started working on the design of the Apple II, which was a real breakthrough due to its color display, sound and expandability. More than two million were sold. At this time, Apple gave up its old logo and adopted its striped applewith-a-bite logo.
neXT
After leaving Apple, Jobs founded another computer company, NeXT Computer. Like Apple's Lisa, the NeXT Cube (launched 1990) was technologically advanced, but was never able to break into the mainstream mainly owing to its high cost and compatibility problems.
NeXT
In January 1992, Steve decided to react to the Cubes miserable sales by licensing its operating system, but it failed too. On February 11, 1993, Steve Jobs officially confirmed he had given up and shut down NeXTs efforts in hardware.
New beginning
Steve took many measures in order to bring Apple back to its glory The first one was the Think different campaign. But the best was yet to come: the iMac. It was unveiled on May 6, 1998. Its revolutionary design made it a stunning success.
Personal life
Jobs married Laurene Powell on March 18, 1991 and has had three children with her. One of the most difficult episode of Steves life occurred in the midst of the turnaround of his very busy career. On 2004, he was diagnosed with cancer. His doctors told him that it was incurable. Later, he had a biopsy where the doctors found it was a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.
Accomplishments
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.
Accomplishments
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
Conclusion
Despite a recent scare with pancreatic cancer, Jobs is back in health and doing just fine Jobs is an influential man who learned from his failures and gained maturity from them Indeed he was True role model
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