Steve Jobs in his youth: biography, life story and interesting facts

For the generation born in the two thousandth, Steve Jobs is the inventor of the iPhone, a phone that, half a year after its appearance in the smartphone market, has become the most desired in the world. Although in reality this man was neither an inventor nor an outstanding programmer. Moreover, he did not even have a special or higher education. However, Jobs always had a vision of what humanity needs, and the ability to motivate people. In other words, the success story of Steve Jobs is a chain of numerous attempts to change the world of computer and digital technologies. And let most of his projects fail, but those that succeeded, forever changed the life of the planet.

Parents of Steve Jobs

In February 1955, a student of the magistracy of the University of Wisconsin Joan had a son. The father of the boy was a Syrian emigrant, and the lovers could not get married. At the insistence of the parents, the young mother was forced to give her son to other people. They were Clara and Paul Jobs. After adoption, Jobs named the boy Steve.

Steve Jobs: a biography of the early years

Jobs have managed to become the ideal parents for Steve. Over time, the family moved to live in the Silicon Valley (Mountain View). Here in his spare time the father of the boy was repairing cars and soon attracted to this occupation and the little son. It was in this garage that he received his first knowledge of electronics Steve Jobs in his youth.

At school, the boy first learned badly. Fortunately, the teacher noticed the boy's extraordinary mind and found a way to interest him in his studies. The material incentive for good marks worked - toys, sweets, small money. Steve was so brilliantly passed the exams that after the fourth grade he was immediately transferred to the sixth.

Even while studying at school, young Jobs met Larry Lang, who interested the guy with computers. Thanks to this acquaintance the talented schoolboy got an opportunity to visit the Hewlett-Packard club, where many specialists worked on their own inventions, helping each other. The time spent here has had a huge impact on shaping the worldview of the future leader of Apple.

However, really changed the life of Steve's acquaintance with Stephen Wozniak.

The first project of Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak

Wozniak (Woz), Jobs introduced his classmate. Young people almost immediately became friends.

At first, guys just joked at school, arranging rallies and discos. However, a little later they decided to organize their own small business project.

At a time when the youth of Steve Jobs (1955-75) passed, all used stationary telephones. The subscription fee for local calls was not very high, but to call in another city or country, had to fork out. Wozniak jokes for the sake of the device designed to "crack" the phone line and make any calls for free. Jobs also arranged the sale of these devices, calling them "blue boxes", at $ 150 per piece. In total, friends managed to sell more than a hundred such devices until they were interested in the police.

Steve Jobs before Apple Computer

Steve Jobs in his youth, however, as well as throughout his life, was a single-minded person. Unfortunately, to achieve the goal, he often showed not the best of his qualities and did not consider the problems of others.

After graduation, he wanted to study in one of the most expensive universities in the US, and for this, parents had to get into debt. But the guy did not really care. Moreover, six months later he dropped out of school and, after being carried away by Hinduism, began desperately to seek enlightenment in the company of unreliable friends. Later I got a job in the company producing video games Atari. After collecting a little money, Jobs for a few months went to India.

Returning from the journey, the young man took a great interest in Homebrew computer club. In this club, engineers and other fans of computer technology (which only began to develop) shared ideas and developments with each other. Over time, the number of club members grew, and his "headquarters" from the dusty garage moved to one of the auditoriums of the Center for Linear Accelerators in Stanford. It was here that Voz presented his revolutionary development, allowing to display characters on the monitor from the keyboard. As a monitor used a normal, slightly modified TV.

Apple Corporation

Like most business projects that Steve Jobs organized in his youth, Apple's appearance was associated with his friend Steven Wozniak. It was Jobs who suggested to Woz to set up the production of ready-made computer boards.

Soon Wozniak and Jobs registered their own company called Apple Computer. The first Apple computer, created on the basis of the new board of Vos, was successfully presented at one of the meetings of the Homebrew computer club, where the owner of a local computer store became interested in him. He ordered the guys fifty computers. Despite many difficulties, Apple completed the order. With the money earned, friends collected another 150 computers and sold them profitably.

In 1977, Apple introduced the world its new offspring - the Apple II computer. At that time it was a revolutionary invention, thanks to which the company turned into a corporation, and its founders became rich.

Since Apple became a corporation, the creative paths of Jobs and Wozniak began to diverge, although they were able to maintain normal relations to the end.

Prior to his dismissal from the company in 1985, Steve Jobs oversaw the development of computers such as Apple III, Apple Lisa and Macintosh. True, not one of them failed to repeat the grandiose success of Apple II. Moreover, by that time a huge competition arose on the computer equipment market, and Jobs's products eventually became inferior to other firms. As a result of this, as well as numerous multi-year complaints from employees of all levels to Steve, he was removed from the position of the head. Feeling betrayed, Jobs himself resigned and started a new project NeXT.

NeXT and Pixar

The new creation of Jobs initially specialized in the production of computers (graphic workstations), adapted to the needs of research laboratories and training centers. True through NeXT time Re-qualified for software products, creating OpenStep. Eleven years after the founding, this company was bought by Apple.

In parallel with work in NeXT Steve became interested in graphics. Therefore, he purchased from the creator of Star Wars animation studio Pixar. At that time, Jobs began to understand the whole grandiose perspective of creating cartoons and films using computer programs. In 1995, Pixar filmed Disney's first full-length animated film, created with computer graphics. It was called Toy story and not only liked children and adults around the world, but also earned a record amount of money at the box office.

After this success, Pixar released several more successful cartoons, six of which received an Oscar. Ten years later, Jobs conceded his company to Walt Disney Pictures.

IMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad

In the mid-nineties, Jobs was invited to return to work at Apple. First of all, the "old-new" leader refused to produce a wide variety of products. Instead, he focused on developing four types of computers. So there were professional computers Power Macintosh G3 and PowerBook G3, as well as iMac and iBook, designed for home use.

Presented to users in 1998, a series of personal monoblock computers iMac quickly won the market and still retains its position.

In the second half of the nineties Steve Jobs realized that with the active development of digital technologies, it is necessary to expand the range of products. Created under his guidance free program for listening to music on computer devices iTunes pushed him to think of developing a digital player that can store and play hundreds of songs. In 2001, Jobs introduced consumers to become a cult iPod.

Despite the fantastic popularity that the iPod acquired, which brought the company a huge profit, its head was afraid of competition from mobile phones. After all, many of them could then reproduce music. Therefore, Steve Jobs organized an active work on the creation of his own phone Apple - IPhone. The new device, introduced in 2007, not only had a unique design, but also a heavy-duty screen made of glass, but it was incredibly functional. Soon he was appreciated all over the world.

The next successful project Jobs was the iPad (tablet for Internet use). The product was very successful and soon won the world market, confidently pushing netbooks.

Last years

Back in 2003, Steven Jobs discovered pancreatic cancer. However, the necessary operation was done to him only a year later. It was successful, but time was lost, and the disease spread to the liver. Six years later, Jobs's liver was transplanted, but his condition continued to deteriorate. In the summer of 2011, Steve officially resigned, and in early October he was gone.

The personal life of Steve Jobs

As with all his professional activities, and with regard to the full events of his personal life, it is with great difficulty that a brief biography can be written. Nobody knew everything about Steve Jobs, since he was always immersed in himself. No one could understand what was actually happening in his head: neither the loving adoptive family, nor the biological mother with whom Steve began to communicate already as an adult, nor his own sister Mona (whom he also found when he grew up), neither the spouse nor the children.

Shortly before entering university, Steve had a relationship with hippie girl Chris Ann Brennan. After a while she gave birth to his daughter Lisa, with whom Jobs did not want to communicate for many years, but cared about her.

Before his marriage in 1991, Stephen had several serious novels. However, he married Lauren Powell, whom he met during one of his lectures. For twenty years of family life, Lauren gave Jobs three children: Reed's son and daughters Eve and Erin.

Interesting facts about Steve Jobs

Biological mother Jobs, giving him up for adoption, forced the adoptive parents to sign a contract, according to which, they pledged to give the boy a higher education in the future. So all the childhood and early youth of Steve Jobs were forced to save money for training his son. Moreover, he wished to study at one of the most prestigious and expensive universities in the country.

Steve Jobs in his youth while studying at the university was carried away by calligraphy. It is thanks to this that his hobby, modern computer programs have the ability to change fonts, letter size and line spacing.

The Apple Lisa computer was named Jobs in honor of his illegitimate daughter Lisa, although he publicly denied it.

Steve's favorite music is the songs of Bob Dylan and The Beatles. It is interesting that the legendary Liverpool Four in the sixties founded the company Apple Corps, specializing in music. The logo was a green apple. And although Jobs claimed that the idea of calling the company Apple it prompted visiting the apple farm of a friend, it seems that he was a little sly.

For most of his life, Jobs adhered to the principles of Zen Buddhism, which quite strongly influenced the strict and laconic appearance of Apple products.

The phenomenon of Jobs was devoted to films, cartoons and even theatrical productions. About him written a lot of books. Jobs describes an example of successful business almost in all textbooks or manuals for entrepreneurs. So, in 2015 the book "The Secret of the Business Youth of Steve Jobs, or Russian Roulette for Money" was published in Russian. In just a few weeks, it began to actively spread on the Internet. It's interesting that the book got such popularity thanks to two phrases in the title that attracted readers: "the secret of business youth" and "Steve Jobs." Feedback on this work is still difficult to find, because at the request of the author the book was blocked on most free resources.

Steve Jobs succeeded in what many can only dream of. Along with Bill Gates, he became a symbol of the computer industry. At the time of Jobs's death, he owned a little more than ten billion dollars, which he earned with his labor.