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Can you imagine Jobs could have ever slept on floors and walked 7 miles for a free meal

at Hare Krishna temple just because he didn't had money ? Yes, he did

Can Anyone who could not afford his college fees and had to drop just after one semester, be a successful technologist and CEO of worlds most high Tech company ? Yes, he did

Steve Jobs was born to two graduate students Abdul fattah Jandali, and Joanne Schieble. But, Joanne parents opposed their marriage, and as a result they placed steve for adoption. When Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California , his unwed mother decided to put him for adoption because she wanted a girl. So in the middle of the night, his mother called a lawyer named Paul Jobs and said, We have an unexpected baby boy, do you want him?

Steve was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs (both were not even graduates). Paul Jobs, was a machinist for a company that made lasers. His mother was an accountant. They were so economically weak that steve could not afford his college fees ( Reed College in Oregon) after one semester. But, later he taking up the study of philosophy and foreign cultures. For this, he slept on floors of friends room and walked 7 miles for just a free meal at the local Hare Krishna temple every week. I didnt have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.

At 20, he and his friend (Steve Wozniak) started a company in a garage on April 1, 1976. Later that year, the duo debuted the Apple I at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California. A local store offered to buy 50 machines and to finance the production, the duo had to scarified their most expensive possessions. Jobs sold his Volkswagen van while Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator. Jobs named their company Apple in memory of a happy summer he had spent as an orchard worker in Oregon.

By 1982 however, his company sales sagged in the face of competition from IBMs new PC. Jobs and Wozniak unveiled their new creation, Lisa to increase the companys bottom line, only to be another expensive failure. Not wanting to dwell on these successive failures, they worked on a new machine called the Macintosh. Jobs was reported to commandeered the project, ruthlessly pushing its computer engineers and flying a pirate flag above the building where the team worked. By 1986 the Mac, which Jobs promised to be insanely great was a huge success. After 10 years, starting from 2 kids working in a garage, Apple computer had grown into a $2 billion dollar company with over 4000 employees.

At age of 30, Jobs was fired from the company he cofounded with Steve Wozniak. He left the company after losing a bitter battle over control with Apples CEO John Sculley (whom Jobs had recruited from Pepsi Cola). Jobs sold over $20 million of his Apple stock. He spent days bicycling along the beach, feeling sad and lost, toured Paris, and journeyed on to Italy. But, he didn't loose hope. During next 5 years, he founded two more companies : NeXTStep and Pixar

NextStep : He founded NextStep in 1985 with approx $7 Million. NeXT workstations were first released in 1990, priced at $9,999. It was technology advanced but didnt do as well as Jobs had dreamed for. It did poorly and Jobs pulled the plug in 1993. Pixar : In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for the price of $10 million. This company was later renamed as Pixar. Pixar contracted with Disney and started the first computer-animated film, the Toy Story . Many films followed and brought fame. When Pixars stock went public, Jobs became an instant billionaire.

Meanwhile, his old company, Apple was under immense pressure from rival Microsoft and in 1996 posted billions of dollars in losses. iPod was introduced by Apple computer. In December 1996 Jobs convinced Apple to buy NeXT and make its software the foundation of the next-generation Mac OS. The technology he developed at NeXT became the catalyst of Apples comeback. .Steve was initially appointed as Apples adviser but later, in 1997 he was named as Apples interim CEO. Under his leadership, Apple returned to profitability and introduced innovations such as the iPod.

In 2004 he was diagnosed with cancer on his pancreas. Jobs was told that the cancer was incurable and he would only live for another three to six months. Later, a biopsy showed that he actually had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. He had the surgery and survived. In 2009, Jobs had been suffering from a "hormone imbalance" for several months and announced a six -month leave of absence until the end of June 2009. During this period, he undergone liver transplant in april, 2009. Jobs announced his resignation as Apple's CEO on August 24, 2011. Tim Cook took over as new CEO of apple. Finally, Steve succumbed to his problem and left this world on October 5, 2011 at his residence in california.

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