Steve Jobs was born on February 24th 1955. He was born in San Francisco and he was also adopted by the Jobs family. His biological parents are Joanne Carole Schieble, and Abdulfattah Jandali. He grew up in Mountain View, California. He made Blue Boxes which are illegal boxes that let you make free calls. He graduated from a high school in Cupertino in 1972 (Markoff). …show more content…
He dropped out of that college after one semester to try to create his own companies. He took a trip to India to learn about Eastern Culture and Religious. When he returned he teamed up with people to help create a few of his companies. He created Apple in his garage which eventually grew and created the Apple 2. The Apple 2 was the first computer to have color graphics and a keyboard. The Apple 2 was a huge success by making $3,000,000 the first year it came out. After two years the Apple 2 had already made $200,000,000 from sales (“Steve Jobs: An Extraordinary Career”). Steve Jobs was the CEO of Apple. He wasn’t the CEO for all of Apple’s success. He was fired in 1985 and 11 years later he came back (“Steve Jobs”). Apple notices how much they missed him so he was rehired. In the early 2000s he was having problems with his liver. In 2009 he had a Liver transplant which kept him going until late 2011. On October 5, 2011 he died from Pancreatic Cancer