Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, to Joanne Schieble (later Joanne Simpson) and Abdul Fattah "John" Jandali, two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave their unnamed son up for adoption. His father, Abdul Fattah Jandali, was a Syrian political science professor and his mother, Joanne Schieble, worked as a speech therapist. As an infant, Steven 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 within California 's Silicon Valley. As a boy, Jobs and his father would work on electronics in the family garage. Paul would show his son how to take apart and reconstruct electronics, a hobby which instilled confidence, tenacity and mechanical prowess in young Jobs. Steve attended the Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but ended up dropping out. In his early ages during the attendance in the Reed College, Steve worked for Atari as a Video Game Designer. Several months after working with Atari he left to India to find spiritual enlightenment in India, traveling the continent and experimenting with psychedelic drugs. In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computers. The duo started in the Jobs family garage. Steve was the CEO of Apple Inc. he also invented companies such as, next INC .and Pixar’s. On October 5, 2011, Apple Inc. announced that its co-founder had passed away. After battling pancreatic cancer for nearly a decade, Steve Jobs died in Palo Alto. He was 56 years old. The reason I picked Steve Jobs First because, not only he is in my field. But he came from being given up by his own parents to, one of the greatest computer revolutionaries. He overcame every obstacle life had put in his path.
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