Steve Jobs's Birthday 2025 – February 24, 2025

Background

Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955. His birthplace is San Francisco, California and he was adopted as an infant by Paul and Clara Jobs. However, his birth mother, Joanne Carole Schieble, was of American, German, and Swiss descent. His birth father, Abdulfattah Jandali, on the other hand, was Syrian. Hence, Jobs has American, German, Swiss, and Syrian heritage. He is a Pisces whose love for electronics developed from watching his adoptive father work and “build almost anything.” He was a loner in middle school and often got in trouble with authority figures. However, he was brilliant and ended up skipping the fifth grade.He transferred to different schools but still got bullied. Jobs attended Homestead High School in 1968, and by 1971 he was taking Freshman English classes at Stanford University. He got into Reed College in September of 1972. After a semester at Reed, Jobs dropped out as he thought the education wasn’t of value to him. However, he audited some classes including Calligraphy, to which he credits Mac’s typefaces design. Jobs kept in contact with his high school buddy, Steve Wozniak. By March 1976, Wozniak had completed the design for the Apple I computer. The duo decided to sell it, and in April 1976, Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple Computer Company in Jobs’ parent’s garage.Jobs and Wozniak produced 200 Apple I computers that year. The company soon got the attention and funding it needed. By April 1977, both partners premiered the Apple II at the West Coast Computer Faire. This computer became mass-produced and highly successful — and Jobs’ wealth grew exponentially after this. In 1978 he was worth $250 million and was named on Forbes list of wealthiest people. On January 24, 1984, he premiered Macintosh at Apple’s annual shareholder’s meeting. In September 1985, following a disagreement with the board over Macintosh, Jobs tendered his resignation letter to the Apple Board. He then starts a new venture, NeXT, with $7 million.Jobs was running out of money with NeXT until billionaire Ross Perot invested in the business. In 1988, the NeXT computer was premiered to the world. However, the ‘NeXT Workstation’ was released for purchase in 1990, but at $9,999, they were cost-prohibitive. In 1996, Apple bought NeXT for $427 million, leaving Jobs with the permanent C.E.O. role of Apple Inc. With his return to Apple, Jobs introduced the iMac, iPod, iTunes, and several more ventures. On June 29, 2007, he introduced the iPhone. Jobs was diagnosed with cancer in October 2003, and though the cancerous tumor was removed from his pancreas in 2004, it returned in 2006. Jobs resigned in August 2011 and continued working for Apple until his death in October 2011. He was survived by his wife, Laurene Powell, whom he married in 1991, his four children, and other extended family members.