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The Famous Entrepreneur, Steven Paul Jobs

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Steve Jobs Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, to Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave their unnamed son up for adoption. His dad, Abdulfattah Jandali, was a Syrian political science professor and his mother, Joanne 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. Steve, was an orphan adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California in February 1955. Jobs was not happy at school in Mountain Viewso the family moved to Los Altos, where Steven went to Homestead High School. His electronics teacher at Homestead High, John McCollum, recalled he was "something of a loner" and "always had a different way of looking at things." Steve Jobs is one of the most famous Entrepreneurs of all time. Steve Jobs permanently redefined the method, look and feel of personal computing. He was among the first to recognize the vast commercial potential of the graphical user interface, the mouse-driven point-and-click system that pilots virtually every desktop computer today. 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. Jobs later

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