Steve Jobs

At 56 years old, Steve Jobs has this physical status:

Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American business magnate, industrial designer, financier, and media owner.

Following the acquisition of Pixar, the chairman, chairman, and CEO of NeXT, he was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO) and co-founder of Apple Inc., the majority shareholder of Pixar, and a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors.

Jobs is widely recognized as a pion of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Jobs were born in San Francisco, California, and were up for adoption.

He was born in the San Francisco Bay area.

He attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out the same year and heading to India in 1974 to seek enlightenment and studying Zen Buddhism.

According to his declassified FBI report, he used marijuana and LSD when he was in college, and he told a reporter that taking LSD was "one of the two or three most important things" he had done in his life. Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer.

Personal life

When Jobs first gave a lecture at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she was a student, he met his future wife, Laurene Powell. Laurene was "right there in the front row of the lecture hall, and I couldn't take my eyes off of her," he said. He met her in the parking lot and invited her out to dinner after the lecture. From that point forward, they were together for the remainder of his life, with a few minor exceptions.

On New Year's Day 1990, a "fetful of freshly picked wildflowers" was introduced by the jobs. They married in 1991 at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, on March 18, 1991. Fifty people attended, including Jobs' father Paul and his sister Mona. Kobun Chino Otogawa, Jobs' guru, presided over the event. The vegan wedding cake was made in the shape of Yosemite's Half Dome, and the reception was complete with a hike and Laurene's snowball duel. According to Mona, "Mona [...], Laurene is descended from Joe Namath, and we're descendant from John Muir."

Reed, Jobs' and Powell's first child, was born in September 1991. Paul, Jobs' father, died a year and a half later on March 5, 1993. Jobs' childhood home is still a tourist attraction, and it is now owned by his stepmother (Paul's second wife), Marilyn Jobs.

Erin, born in August 1995, and Eve, born in 1998, had two more children, Powell and Powell. The family lived in Palo Alto, California. In Palo Alto, a journalist who grew up in a local recalls him as owning the house with "the scariest [Halloween] decorations. I don't recall seeing him. "I was running late being afraid."

Despite being made aware that Bill Gates, the bulk of his income, would not be left to his children, Jobs said. Both men had limited access to social media, computer games, and the Internet, according to both men.

After Jobs was forced out of Apple, Chrisann Brennan says "he apologized numerous times for his actions" toward her and Lisa. "He never took responsibility when he should have," Jobs said, adding that she was sorry." Jobs had a long association with Lisa, and when she was nine, Jobs' name changed from "Lisa Brennan" to "Lisa Brennan-Jobs" on her birth certificate. Brennan and Lisa began a professional relationship together, thanks in large part to Mona Simpson, his newly found biological sister who helped to resolve Lisa and Jobs' friendship. Mona was discovered only after the employee, Joanne Schieble Simpson, was discovered right after he left Apple.

However, jobs did not contact his birth family during his foster mother Clara's lifetime. "I never wanted [Paul and Clara] to feel like I didn't think they were my parents, because they were completely my parents," Walter Isaacson later told reporters that "I never wanted them to know about my search; even though some of them were found out." Clara was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1986, when work was 31 years old. He began to spend a lot of time with her and learned more about her history and adoption, which inspired him to locate his biological mother. The name of the San Francisco doctor to whom Schieble had turned when she was pregnant was discovered on his birth certificate. Although the doctor didn't help Jobs when he was alive, he left a letter for Jobs open upon his death. As he died soon after, Jobs was sent a letter revealing that "his mother had been an unmarried graduate student from Wisconsin named Joanne Schieble."

After Clara died in early 1986 and after he had obtained permission from his father, Paul, only contacted Schieble. In addition, he begged the media not to cover his hunt out of respect for Paul. Since I'm glad I didn't end up as an abortion, Jobs said he was motivated to find his birth mother out of both curiosity and a desire to see if she was okay and to thank her. She was twenty-three and she wanted me to have me," she said. Schieble was upbeat during their first meeting (even though she wasn't familiar with Apple or Jobs' involvement) and told him that she had been coerced into signing the adoption papers. She regretted giving him up and expressed her displeasure with it on several occasions. Jobs and Schieble will have a long-term relationship and can spend Christmas together.

Schieble told Jobs that he had a sister, Mona, who was unaware of her brother. Schieble arranged a meeting for them in New York, where Mona worked. "He was so straightforward and lovely, just a regular and sweet guy," she had at first. Simpson and Jobs then went on a long walk to get to know each other. "Mona was not delighted at first to have me in her life and have her mother so emotionally attached to me" — my family became a good friend, and she became my family. I'd not know what I'd do without her. I can't imagine a better sister. Patty, my adopted sister, and I were never close."

He learned his family history before working at a hospital. Schieble's father died in June, she and her partner, Mona, six months after he was put up for adoption. After finishing his PhD, Jandali returned to Syria to work, but Schieble left him. They divorced in 1962, but he said he lost touch with Mona for a time: a time.

George Simpson, an ice skating coach, married Schieble a few years ago. Mona Simpson was Mona Jandali, who went by her stepfather's name. Schieble, a widowed woman, brought Mona to Los Angeles alone in 1970.

Simpsons, who was living in Sacramento, California, had no intention in seeing him because Jandali didn't treat his children properly, reportedly because of a Seattle Times article about Jandali's abandonment of his students on a trip to Egypt in 1974. Simpson travelled to Sacramento alone and met Jandali, a waitress who worked in a small restaurant. They talked for several hours, and he told her that he had left teaching for the restaurant industry. He and Schieble gave another child up for adoption, but that "we'll never see that baby again." The baby is gone, and that's sad." He said he once owned a Mediterranean restaurant near San Jose and that "all of the latest innovations that have thrived" there. And Steve Jobs... oh yeah, he used to come in, and he was a generous guy and a huge tipper." Simpson did not inform Jandali that she had met his son at his request.

Jobs recalled that the tour was "exciting" after learning about it. I had been to the restaurant a few times before, but I can recall the owner's name. He was Syrian. Balding. "We shook hands." However, jobs did not want to see Jandali because "I was a wealthy man by then," and I didn't want him to blackmail me or go to the newspaper about it. I begged Mona not to tell him about me." Jandali later discovered his work with Jobs through an online journal. "What is this thing about Steve Jobs?" He said to Simpson, who then contacted Simpson, asking, "What is this thing about Steve Jobs?" Simpson told him that it was true and later added, "My father is thoughtful and a wonderful storyteller, but he is also very passive." Steve was never in contact with him. Simpson believed that Jobs would eventually desire to meet their father because she researched her Syrian roots and started to visit their families, but he didn't do it. He also showed no interest in his Syrian roots or the Middle East. In her 1992 book The Lost Father, Simpson reimagined the father's search for their father. Malek Jandali is their cousin.

Jobs' philanthropy and charity work are a public mystery. He maintained anonymity over his unusual few criminal offences that were not widely known. He has been a central figure in public debates about the rich and powerful's social responsibilities. The media investigated and sluggishly dismissed Apple and Apple as both unusually and inexplicably absent among influential politicians and especially billionaires throughout his career. His name is absent from the Million Dollar List of all major global philanthropy. Any have speculated over his possible involvement in large anonymous donations.

Former Joan Baez, Apple, and Jobs' Mark Vermilion attributed Jobs' lifelong neglect of direct charity to his ingenuity and limited space. Over the years, jobs, Vermilion, and others said that company contributions to culture and society came from employees rather than direct charity. "You know, my main reaction to this money issue is that it's amusing, because it isn't the most innovative or valuable thing that's happened to me," Jobs said in 1985.

He founded the charitable Steven P. Jobs Foundation, led by Mark Vermilion, shortly after leaving Apple, and moved away from Apple's community leadership. Jobs wanted a focus on diet and vegetarianism, but Vermilion wanted social entrepreneurship. With no success, Jobs rolled out NeXT and closed the company. Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, reversing all philanthropic services, which were unlikely to be recovered. Apple was one of "America's least philanthropic companies" in 2007, according to a Stanford Social Innovation Review journal in 2007. Apple introduced a program to honor employees' charitable contributions a few months after another troubling news story. Jobs have declined to sign The Giving Pledge, which was started by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates for fellow billionaires in 2010. He donated $50 million to Stanford University Hospital and also endorsed the efforts to cure AIDS. While Jobs was CEO, Bono disclosed "tens of millions of dollars" donated by Apple to AIDS and HIV assistance in Africa, which prompted other businesses to join.

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Honors and awards

• 1985: National Medal of Technology (with Steve Wozniak), awarded by US President Ronald Reagan
• 1987: Jefferson Award for Public Service
• 1989: Entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc.
• 1991: Howard Vollum Award from Reed College
• 2004–2010: Listed among the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World on five separate occasions
• 2007: Named the most powerful person in business by Fortune magazine
• 2007: Inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts
• 2012: Grammy Trustees Award, an award for those who have influenced the music industry in areas unrelated to performance
• 2012: Posthumously honored with an Edison Achievement Award for his commitment to innovation throughout his career
• 2013: Posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend
• 2017: Steve Jobs Theatre opens at Apple Park
• 2022: Posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by US President Joe Biden, the country's highest civilian honor