Steve Jobs's Background
"Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, to Joanne Schieble (later Joanne Simpson) and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave their unnamed son up for adoption... As an infant, Steven was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs" - Biography.com Steve Jobs' first job out of high school was working at Atari. Steve Wozniak helped Jobs make his own video game for Atari.
"Several months later [along with his friend, Daniel Kottke], he left Atari to find spiritual enlightenment in India, traveling the continent and experimenting with psychedelic drugs" - Biography.com.
Steve returned to working at Atari as a Zen Buddhist. Jobs and Wozniak went to the Homebrew Computer Club to display their first computer prototype.
"When he came into town I took him to my computer club where I was a hero for my designs" - Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple. Paul Terrell, who owned The Byte Shop, was interested in buying Steve Jobs's computers.
"There were two phases of Apple as a company. In the first phase, we worked in our homes and it's called the garage, although we never developed any products or manufactured them or did business in the garage" - Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple. "Our investor, Mike Markkula, owned as much of Apple as we did and he taught us how to set up a company and who to hire and what their roles would be. Steve learned marketing principles from Mike and ran with them" - Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple.
"Steve Jobs had failure after failure trying to invent new computers but eventually wound up in charge of the Macintosh, which was our largest failure" - Steve Wozniak, Co Founder of Apple.
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Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996 after selling NeXT to Apple and Pixar to Disney.
"But by now Jobs was mature enough to run a company and be a CEO. Only then. More than anything he had to have complete control" - Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple. "Much of the technology developed at NeXT ended up back at Apple (later incorporated into OSX) when it bought NeXT for $429 million and Apple stock" - Susan Kare Interview, Graphics Designer at Apple and NeXT. |