Technology company Apple went public the day of December 12, 1980. The company was initially priced at $22 a share by the end of the day it was up to $29. At only 25 years old, Steve Jobs was worth $256 million. Jobs founded the company Apple in his garage building small circuit boards with friends and family, little did he know that in only a few short years he would be the head of a company worth $1.79 Billion, making over three hundred employees millionaires by the year 1980 alone (Isaacson 103,104). On February 24th, 1955 Steven Paul Jobs was born to Joanne Schieble. Jobs biological dad was a Syrian man named Ab-dulfattah Jandali. Schieble thought it would bring shame into her family for being with a Syrian man so she gave Steve up for adoption. Paul and Clara Jobs became his new parents, a young working class couple in San Francisco, Paul was a debt collector, machinist, and repo man. Clara was a payroll associate at one of the first high tech companies in Silicon Valley. Steve would always consider his adoptive parents to be is real true parents. It would seem Steve is far from the man he would eventually become. The circumstances of his area and time of birth would end up being perfect to allow Steve Jobs to excel exponentially in his time both economically and technologically. …show more content…
It was a simple town just to the south a Paulo Alto. This move would eventually turn out to be key in placing young Steve right in the middle of the engineering society that was beginning to bloom in Silicon