Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was born on February 24,1955 in San Francisco, California. During Jobs' adolescence he went to Homestead High School ( 1968-1972). He later then graduated, got his diploma, and attended Reed college during the years 1972- 1974. Jobs dropped out of college because he was bored of it & also did not enjoy paying for courses he did not want to take. Jobs also during his college years did not attend his required courses and only attended the ones that interested him (ex: dance class).
Steve Jobs always admired people who were "different from the bunch". Jobs said that his personal hero was Henry Ford because of his peculiar taste and view on management. Jobs also admired Thomas Edison for, like himself, his inventions that innovated the world. Steve Jobs was a very independent individual, even through his childhood he never played team based sports and only did competitive swimming. He also worked inside his neighbors garage on the Hewett Packard Co. (a computer company).
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This obsession lead to his great success along with his 2 friends Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. These three friends worked together in a garage developed and sold personal computers in the 70's. These computers changed the world due to them being able to be used in a home or office. Their first model was called the Apple 1 and was sold without a monitor or keyboard (added in 1977). The Apple 2 was the first model to be sold with color graphics. After that their sales jumped from $7.8 million in 1978 to $117 million in 1980. Through the rest of the 80's their sales were good and they reached their highest sale in