Steve Jobs Biography
(1955–2011)
Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak. Under Jobs' guidance, the
company pioneered a series of revolutionary technologies, including the iPhone and iPad.
Who Was Steve Jobs?
Steven Paul Jobs was an American inventor, designer and entrepreneur who was the cofounder, chief executive and chairman of Apple Computer. Apple's revolutionary products,
which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern
technology.
Born in 1955 to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for
adoption, Jobs was smart but directionless, dropping out of college and experimenting with
different pursuits before co-founding Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976. Jobs left the
company in 1985, launching Pixar Animation Studios, then returned to Apple more tha
Steve Jobs’ Parents and Adoption
Jobs was born to Joanne Schieble (later Joanne Simpson) and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali,
two University of Wisconsin graduate students. The couple gave up their unnamed son for
adoption.
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