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Steven Paul Jobs 1955 - 2011

Steven Paul Jobs of Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California United States was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, San Francisco County to Abdulfattah John Jandali and Joanne Carole Schieble. Steven Jobs had a sister Mona (Jandali) Simpson. Steven's partner was Chrisann Brennan in 1972 and they later separated in 1977. They had a child Lisa Nicole Brennan-Jobs. He married Laurene (Powell) Jobs on March 18, 1991 at The Ahwahnee 1 Ahwahnee Drive, in Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, and they were married until Steven's death on October 5, 2011. They had children Reed Paul Jobs, Erin Siena Jobs, and Eve Lauren Jobs.

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  • Introduction

    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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    February 24, 1955
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    San Francisco, San Francisco County, California United States
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  • Ethnicity & Family History

    Steve Jobs was born to Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali, both of whom were of diverse ethnic backgrounds. Joanne Schieble was of Swiss and German descent, and Abdulfattah Jandali was of Syrian descent. He was born in Homs, Syria, and later came to the United States to pursue his education. His adoptive parents, Paul and Clara Jobs, were of Armenian and Swiss descent.

  • Nationality & Locations

    Born in San Francisco California in 1955, his adopted parents were from Mountain View California and raised Steve in their home at 2066 Crist Drive, Los Altos, California. This is where he spent his early years and developed an interest in electronics. Steve Jobs briefly attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and lived in the dorms there before dropping out. He famously slept on the floor in friends' rooms and returned Coke bottles for food money. In 1974, Steve Jobs traveled to India in search of spiritual enlightenment. He lived in various ashrams and experimented with Zen Buddhism during this period. After returning from India, Steve lived in a communal house with friends in Los Altos. It was in this house's garage that he and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer, Inc., in 1976. Throughout his career, Jobs lived in various homes in the Palo Alto area, including a Spanish-style mansion in the Old Palo Alto neighborhood. He was known for hosting meetings and brainstorming sessions with Apple's design team in his home. He purchased a historic mansion in Woodside, California, known as the Jackling House, in the 1980s. However, he didn't live there for long, and the house became a subject of controversy and legal battles. After leaving Apple in 1985, Steve Jobs founded NeXT Computer, and he lived in a home in Palo Alto known as the "NeXT House," which served as a base for his work on the NeXT project. Steve and his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, lived in various homes in Palo Alto and the surrounding areas while raising their children. These homes were known for their privacy and tasteful design. Jobs also had a home in Hawaii, where he spent time with his family. It was a place of relaxation and retreat for him. In his later years, he often stayed at the Turtle Bay Resort in Hawaii, where he sought privacy and relaxation during his battle with cancer.

  • Early Life & Education

    Homestead High School (Cupertino CA) Reed College (Portland OR) - 1 semester

  • Religious Beliefs

    Steve was a highly spiritual individual. He was known to have studied Buddhism, and was a big fan of Yogananda. In fact, Yogananda's "Autobiography of a Yogi" book was a significant book for Steve and is famously remembered as being the one book that Jobs had downloaded on his iPad.

  • Professional Career

    Businessman, industrial designer, investor, media: Co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. Chairman, Pixar (also majority shareholder) Walt Disney Company - member of the board of directors NeXT - founder, chairman, CEO Worked at Atari

  • Personal Life & Family

    Steve Jobs was known for his intense focus on his work and for maintaining a relatively private personal life. While he achieved great success in the tech industry, his personal life and family were not as publicly visible. He was born in San Francisco, California, to Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali. His biological parents were both students at the University of Wisconsin when he was born. They later put him up for adoption. Paul and Clara Jobs, a couple from Mountain View, California, adopted Steve when he was a baby. They raised him as their own son, and he considered them his real parents. Steve had one biological sister, Mona Simpson, who is a renowned novelist. They did not meet until they were adults, as they were raised in separate families. The relationship between Steve and Mona became close after they discovered each other. He married Laurene Powell Jobs, an entrepreneur and businesswoman, in 1991. They met when she was a student at Stanford University, where Steve occasionally gave guest lectures. They had three children together: Reed, Erin, and Eve. Before his marriage to Laurene, Steve had a daughter named Lisa Brennan-Jobs, born in 1978, with his high school girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan. He initially denied paternity but later accepted responsibility and developed a relationship with his daughter.
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    October 5, 2011
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  • 10/7
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    October 7, 2011
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    Alta Mesa Memorial Park Arastradero Rd., in Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California 94306, United States
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  • Obituary

    CNET October 6 2011 Steve Jobs has died at the age of 56. We look back on his life and remember the co-founder and chairman of Apple. Steve Jobs has died at the age of 56. Jobs was the charismatic mastermind behind Apple. With his leadership, the company went from a startup in his parents' garage to the highest-valued company in the world, introducing the idea that technology can be an object of desire. Jobs' career began when he dropped out of Reed College on Oregon after a year, choosing instead to drop in on other classes at the campus. One was calligraphy. "It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating," Steve said in a famous speech to Stanford University graduates in 2005. A decade later that course influenced his work on the Macintosh, which introduced beautiful typography to a computer for the first time. "And since Windows just copied the Mac," he later explained, "it's likely that [without this] no personal computer would have them." Jobs' intuition for balancing technology and art would become the cornerstone of Apple's game plan, but his business savvy and sales ability would also pave his way to a rare fortune. One example was in 1975. A 20-year-old Jobs was working for Atari, building a reputation for getting things done. Bosses offered Steve a huge bonus if he could improve their flagship arcade game, Breakout. Jobs turned to his geeky friend Steve 'Woz' Wozniak, offering half the $700 fee if he could complete it in four days. Apple began one year later, when Jobs found Woz building his own computer. He saw potential in the relatively small prototype, and suggested they go into business -- Woz as product designer, Jobs as salesman. Everything was perfect; they were young, talented and living in Silicon Valley at just the right time. Computers were set to become the most profitable industry in the world. After one year they brought their flagship computer to market: the Apple II. It made them rich. "From almost the beginning at Apple we were, for some incredibly lucky reason, fortunate enough to be at the right place at the right time," he told the Smithsonian. "The contributions we tried to make embodied values not only of technical excellence and innovation -- which I think we did our share of -- but innovation of a more humanistic kind." Jobs became a superstar in the 80s, but with the growing pressure of running a global business, he needed help. He turned to Pepsi boss John Sculley in 1983, famously asking, "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" Sculley accepted, but the relationship soured. Jobs was fired. Being kicked out of the company he founded and lived for most of his adult life left him devastated. But Jobs later admitted it was the best thing that ever happened to him. The weight of Apple's vast success had begun to starve his creativity, and being fired let him appreciate being a beginner again. During this time he founded Pixar, which made the first ever computer animated film, Toy Story -- a genuine classic. When Disney bought the company for $7.4bn in 2006, Jobs became Disney's largest single shareholder. At the same time, Jobs also ventured back into computing with a new company, NeXT. It built an operating system and Jobs later sold it to his old friends at Apple, who renamed it OS X. But Apple had begun to flounder without its original visionary, and Jobs returned to lead it in 1997. From that point on, every leading Apple product was given at least one killer feature to separate it from the copycat industry that would surround it. The first iMac was a stylish jab at the beige computers of the day, with a striking range of colours. Jony Ive's refreshing design became a thing of mainstream technology lust -- you didn't need to be a geek to love computers any more. Then the iPod and iTunes brought about a revolution in the music industry. In fact, it was so much more than just music -- it opened the door to digital products being a normal thing to buy. The iPhone would be Apple's greatest coup. It brought touchscreen phones to the mainstream and Apple became a leading player in the mobile phone industry, out of nowhere. Suddenly, Apple could do anything. The iPad could be the culmination of Jobs' genius. The product had been planned for decades: this concept video is from 1987. It shows how Apple wanted to produce a tablet with what would become FaceTime and Siri two decades ago, predicting it would be available in September 2011. "My model for business is The Beatles," Jobs said in 2003. "There were four guys who kept each others', kind of, negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. And that's how I see business. You know, great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people." Away from his work, Jobs was a family man, married in 1991 to Laurene Powell. After stepping down from Apple after his third medical leave in August this year, with Tim Cook taking his seat as CEO, a neighbour described his son's high school graduation. "There Steve stood, tears streaming down his cheeks, his smile wide and proud, as his son received his diploma and walked on into his own bright future, leaving behind a good man and a good father who can be sure of the rightness of this, perhaps his most important legacy of all." Jobs' greatest words could be from that Stanford University speech he made in 2005. "Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith... Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. "As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle. "Stay hungry. Stay foolish." Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
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Steve Jobs & Bill Gates
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Steve Jobs & Bill Gates
A young Steve Jobs and Bill Gates chatting together circa 1991. I believe this may have been taken in Palo Alto, California, but if someone knows better please let a comment and let me know!
Date & Place: in Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California United States
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, co-founders of Apple Computer. Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955 but was raised in the Mt View/Sunnyvale area, which even then was an electronics hotbed. We're now called "Silicon Valley" but even when Steve Jobs was born, the area was the birthplace of many businesses including Memorex, Hewlett-Packard, FMC, and more.

Steve Jobs was the "business" part of the duo - Steve Wozniak was the computer guy. They were a great marriage of minds, giving rise to a revolution in personal computers.
Date & Place: at Silicon Valley in Santa Clara County, California USA
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Steve and his Mercedes SL convertible
Fun random fact many might not know... On Stevens Creek Boulevard in Santa Clara California is a Mercedes dealership that before AutoNation purchased was named Smythe European.

The owner of this dealership knew Steve very well. Steve valued his privacy and liked to park his cars wherever he wanted. He discovered a loophole in California DMV regulations which allowed six months of grace period before a license plate had to be attached to a new car.

So what Steve did was constantly had a six-month lease on new SL55 AMGs through Smythe European, resulting in him never having a license plate.

You might know that bit...but what you likely don't know? The owner actually gave Steve these cars for free. Why? Because on the temporary license plate was branding for Smythe European. The owner thought that this was the absolute best advertising - having Steve Jobs driving all of Silicon Valley representing HIS dealership.
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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates - 2 young (and competitive) entrepreneurs.
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Stephen Jobs - 1972 Homestead High School
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Stephen Jobs - 1972 Homestead High School
The 1972 Homestead High School yearbook photo of Stephen Jobs, better known as Steve Jobs, the cofounder of Apple based in Silicon Valley, California.
Date & Place: at Homestead High School 21370 Homestead Rd, in Cupertino, Santa Clara County, California 95014, United States
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple Founders
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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.
Date & Place: in Sunnyvale, California USA
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Steven Paul Jobs Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011
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The Ahwahnee 1 Ahwahnee Drive Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, California, 95389 United States
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Laurene (Powell) Jobs born Nov 3, 1963
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Reed Paul Jobs born Sep 22, 1991
Eve Lauren Jobs born Apr 30, 1998
Erin Siena Jobs born Aug 19, 1995
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Steve Wozniak born Aug 11, 1950 Los Gatos, California, United States
Stephen Gary Wozniak of 16400 Blackberry Hill Rd, in Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, California United States was born on August 11, 1950 in San Jose. He was married to Candice Clark on June 13, 1981 and they later divorced in 1987. Stephen Wozniak has children Sara Nadine Wozniak, Stephen Gary Wozniak Jr, and Jesse John Wozniak. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Steve Wozniak.
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