Steve Jobs was born in February 1955 in San Francisco, California. He was adopted at a
very young age by Clara and Paul Jobs (Corbis Corporation, 2010). Steve found an early interest
in electronics and gadgets with the aid of a neighbor who worked at Hewlett-Packard. Jobs
received his first computer at the age of 12 and knew right then that he wanted to spend his
career working with computers (2010). After two years of college, Jobs dropped out. In 1975, he
joined a group named Homebrew Computer Club who had a member by the name of Steve
Wozniak (2010). This ended up being an important meeting between Wozniak and Jobs because
they went on to form Apple, Inc. in 1976.
By 1984, Apple, Inc. introduced the Macintosh computer to the world. This started a
trend of Apple introducing innovative products to the market. Job had issues with Apple and was
fired in the late 1980s, but he returned in the late 1990s ( (Lashinsky, 2009). After his return to
