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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple Founders

Updated Mar 25, 2024
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple Founders
Early photo of entrepreneurs Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. They're seen here looking at an early version of the "guts" for a personal computer - probably Steve Wozniak's effort. Steve Jobs was the "business guy", having the entrepreneurial spirit and vision to capitalize on what they created. Steve Wozniak was the "guts guy" - the nerd - who could build anything electronic. A happy marriage of minds that created Apple Computers.

Then an even more brilliant strategy - in the 1980's, Apple began donating computers to schools. Now a whole generation is using Apple products.
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Steven Paul Jobs
Steve was born to Abdulfattah Jandali (born in Syria in 1931, a Muslim, who attended the University of Wisconsin, PhD) and Joanne Schieble (Swiss/German Catholic, born in the US) and he was adopted by Paul and Clara (Hagopian) Jobs. His adoptive father Paul was a Coast Guard mechanic prior to marrying Clara. According to Abdulfattah, Joanne left him and moved to San Francisco (behind his back) and she alone chose an adoptive family who was "Catholic, well-educated, and wealthy". After that couple changed their minds about adoption, Steve was placed with Paul and Clara but Joanne refused to sign the adoption papers because they didn't have a college education. After they pledged to pay for Steve's college education, she consented. Steve had a biological sister, Mona Simpson, and an adoptive sister, Patricia (with whom he grew up). By 1959, the entire Jobs family had moved to Mt View, CA. While a seeming loner to classmates, he said that he loved hanging out with his father and "building things" as well as the adult engineers who lived in their neighborhood. Steve had said that he was bored in school and was often in trouble for "resisting authority." His mother had taught him to read when he was a toddler and he had an (obviously!) bright, quick mind. By 4th grade, however, he had a teacher who knew how to reach him and he did so well, he ended up skipping 5th grade. And when they moved to Los Altos in 1967 and he was in a new school, he began to thrive. The school was in the Cupertino school district where a lot of the fathers were engineers. And it was in this house that Apple Computer, his first business founded with co-founder Steve Wozniak was born. Since he grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, he went through many of the same experiences that his peers did: exposure to innovation and entrepreneurship; creative, new music; cultural diversity; civil protest (Woz went to UC Berkeley and he often visited there); and drug experimentation. All of these influences as well as the bright minds of his biological parents and the steadying influence of his adoptive parents, probably lead to his becoming an extraordinary and inventive entrepreneur. He was survived by his wife Laurene, with whom he had three children. He also had a daughter with a long-time girlfriend who he dated before marrying. Scroll down for a CNET obituary that includes much of his business career as well as some of his quotes about life. All of us Apple users celebrate your life, Steve - and miss your influence on Apple corporation. What wonderful new creations would we have had by now?
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Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak, aka "Woz", is best remembered as being co-founder of Apple in 1976, but he is also an extremely talented electronics engineer and programmer, big time philanthropist (especially with education) and entrepreneur. Everyone who knows him in Silicon Valley holds Woz in high respect due to his kind nature, sense of humor and care for humanity. Wozniak lives in Los Gatos with his wife Janet Hill and is a non-active Freemason at Mt. Moriah Lodge 292. He has three children with his ex-wife Candice Clark (married from June 13th, 1981-1987) and of course many of us know of his relationship with actress Kathy Griffin. Woz was born to Margaret Louise (Kern) Wozniak (1923-2014) and Lockheed engineer Francis Jacob "Jerry" Wozniak (1925-1994) in San Jose, California. According to his Santa Clara County birth certificate, his name is listed as "Stephan Gary Wozniak". His mother Margaret said that she had intended his name to be spelled "Stephen", so to rectify the situation he just goes by "Steve". He began working with Steven Paul Jobs to form Apple in 1975. He was the lead with designing the Apple II which was introduced in 1977 and was the one of, if not the, first successfully mass-produced computers. This was during a time when numerous ventures were attempting to figure out the potential of computers and how they would be utilized for business & personal use. So if you're reading this right now, you have Woz, in part, to thank!
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