WHO IS STEVE JOBS?
Birth and Adoption
Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California to an American mother, Joanne Carole Schieble, and a Syrian father, Abdulfattah John Jandali. Unfortunately, he was put up for adoption a week after birth . He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs who gave him the name of Steven Paul Jobs.
Childhood and Teenage years
Since he was a boy, 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 engineer's garages. At Homestead High, he attended his first electronics class and befriended Bill Fernandez, who shared his passion for elecronics. Fernandez happened to know an electronics whiz whose name was Steve Wozniak.
Friendship between "the Two Steves"
Although they met in 1969, a real friendship between Steve and Wozniak started developing a couple of years later, when Wozniak became a renowned figure in the small world of "phone freaks". They started selling 'blue boxes" that allowed to make AT&T's international calls for free, until it started to become too illegal to be safe.
College and his First Job
After Steve finished High School, he attended Reed College in Oregon. His grades were extremely poor. "After six months, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out, so I decided to drop out". It wasn't before 1974 that he got his first job at a young video game company caled Atari.