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Steve Jobs.
Steven Paul Jobs was an American inventor, designer and entrepreneur who was the co-founder,
chief executive and chairman of Apple Computer. Apple's revolutionary products, which include
the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology. Born in
1955 to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption, Jobs was
smart but directionless, dropping out of college and experimenting with different pursuits before
co-founding Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976. Jobs left the company in 1985, launching Pixar
Animation Studios, then returned to Apple more than a decade later. Jobs died in 2011 following a
long battle with pancreatic cancer.
Net Worth
In 2011, Forbes estimated the majority of Steve Jobs’ net worth at around $6.5 billion to $7 billion
from his sale of Pixar to the Walt Disney Company in 2006. However if Jobs had not sold his Apple
shares in 1985, when he left the company he founded for over a decade, his net worth would have
been a staggering $36 billion.
Movies and Books on Steve Jobs
Several movies inspired by the computer icon's life have been released as well — namely the
critically panned Jobs (2013), starring Ashton Kutcher, and Steve Jobs (2015), starring Michael
Fassbender and directed by Danny Boyle.
A number of books have also been written on Jobs' life and career, including an authorized 2011
general biography by Walter Isaacson. The book was critiqued for the depiction of its main subject
by Apple's chief executive Tim Cook, who succeeded Jobs. Karen Blumenthal also wrote a 2012
young adult biography, and Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli wrote 2015's Becoming Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs’ Death and Last Words
Steve Jobs died in Palo Alto on October 5, 2011, after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly a
decade. He was 56 years old.
In Mona Simpson’s eulogy for Steve Jobs, his sister said Steve Jobs looked at his sister Patty, kids
and wife, then said his last words: “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”
Wife and Children
Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell married on March 18, 1991. The pair met in the early 1990s at
Stanford business school, where Powell was an MBA student. They lived together in Palo Alto,
California, with their three children.
Although he remained a private man who rarely disclosed information about his family, it is known
that Jobs fathered a daughter, Lisa, with girlfriend Chrisann Brennan when he was 23. He denied
paternity of his daughter in court documents, claiming he was sterile. Chrisann struggled
financially for much of her life, and Jobs did not initiate a relationship with his daughter until she
was seven years old. When she was a teenager, Lisa came to live with her father.
When and Where Was Steve Jobs Born?
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California.
Family and Early Life
Joanne Schieble (later Joanne Simpson) and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, two University of
Wisconsin graduate students, gave up their unnamed son, Steve Jobs, for adoption. Jobs’ father,
Jandali, was a Syrian political science professor, and his mother, Schieble, worked as a speech
therapist. Shortly after Steve was placed for adoption, his biological parents married and had
another child, Mona Simpson. It was not until Jobs was 27 that he was able to uncover information
on his biological parents.
As an infant, Jobs was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs. Clara worked
as an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist. The family lived in Mountain
View, California, within the area that would later become known as Silicon Valley. As a boy, Jobs
and his father worked on electronics in the family garage. Paul showed his son how to take apart
and reconstruct electronics, a hobby that instilled confidence, tenacity and mechanical prowess in
young Jobs.
Education
While Jobs was always an intelligent and innovative thinker, his youth was riddled with
frustrations over formal schooling. Jobs was a prankster in elementary school due to boredom,
and his fourth-grade teacher needed to bribe him to study. Jobs tested so well, however, that
administrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school — a proposal that his parents declined.
After high school, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Lacking direction, he dropped
out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes at the
school. Jobs later recounted how one course in calligraphy developed his love of typography.
In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari. Several months later he left the
company to find spiritual enlightenment in India, traveling further and experimenting with
psychedelic drugs.
Steve Wozniak
Back when Jobs was enrolled at Homestead High School, he was introduced to his future partner
and co-founder of Apple Computer, Steve Wozniak, who was attending the University of
California, Berkeley.
In a 2007 interview with PC World, Wozniak spoke about why he and Jobs clicked so well: "We
both loved electronics and the way we used to hook up digital chips," Wozniak said. "Very few
people, especially back then, had any idea what chips were, how they worked and what they could
do. I had designed many computers, so I was way ahead of him in electronics and computer
design, but we still had common interests. We both had pretty much sort of an independent
attitude about things in the world.”
Battle with Cancer

In 2003, Jobs discovered that he had a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare but operable form of
pancreatic cancer. Instead of immediately opting for surgery, Jobs chose to alter his pesco-
vegetarian diet while weighing Eastern treatment options. For nine months, Jobs postponed
surgery, making Apple's board of directors nervous. Executives feared that shareholders would
pull their stock if word got out that their CEO was ill. But in the end, Jobs' confidentiality took
precedence over shareholder disclosure. In 2004, he had a successful surgery to remove the
pancreatic tumor. True to form, in subsequent years Jobs disclosed little about his health.
Early in 2009, reports circulated about Jobs' weight loss, some predicting his health issues had
returned, which included a liver transplant. Jobs responded to these concerns by stating he was
dealing with a hormone imbalance. Days later, he went on a six-month leave of absence. In an e-
mail message to employees, Jobs said his "health-related issues are more complex" than he
thought, then named Tim Cook, Apple’s chief operating officer, as “responsible for Apple's day-
today operations."

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Battle with Cancer

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