Born unnamed to Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanna Simpson in 1955, but soon put up for adoption, and received by Clara and Paul Jobs and given the name Steven Paul Jobs. Steve Jobs grew into his confidence and mechanical talent through his hobby of tinkering with electronics along with his father in the family garage. As an intelligent and innovative young mind he was encouraged by school administrators to skip some grades and jump right on into high school. During high school Jobs spent some time at Hewlett-Packard and grew respect for a computer engineer, Steve Wozniak, and later on formed the company at the front of modern technology today.
After a short stay being a video game designer at Atari and traveling to India for some time, at the age of 21 in 1974 himself and Steve Wozniak started Apple computers, with the user friendly, inexpensive, and intuitive personal computers, the Apple I and then the Apple II. By 1980 Jobs and Wozniak made Apple Computer into a $1.2 billion publicly traded company. Several disappointment product designs later and being in an IBM dominated market of personal computers slowly the executives began to phase out Jobs in belief that he was hurting the company more than helping it. In 1985 Job resigned from Apple, he began a software company NeXT, Inc. following that bought and personally invested in Pixar Animation Studio and in his 12 years running turned it into an extremely successful animation film studio. After his risky, but successful business ventures Apple bought out NeXT and Jobs returned to his position of CEO of Apple, when the great innovations he thought of started based upon the his previous standing at Apple. Based on the idea of allowing all consumers to have their own personal computers, Jobs rolled out the iMac, which became a huge success through clever marketing and design. With the rest of the universally famous inventions and innovations of the iPod, iTunes, iPhone, and most recently the iPad, Jobs made Apple Inc. the most admired company and #1 on Fortune 500. From health problems that stemmed from a tumor found in 2003, Steve Jobs passed away October 5, 2011 at 56 years old.
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