He was a college dropout, a slacker in Primary School. However, Steve Jobs had a dream that came to life in the garage of his parent’s house the company Apple, is currently worth $1.2 billion dollars. Jobs has revolutionized the technological world("Steve Jobs - Biography - Inventor - Biography.com." ). Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955, in San Francisco California. He was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs. Steve and his dad worked on electronics together in the family garage. Jobs was a prankster in elementary school his fourth grade teacher needed to bribe him to study. Administrators wanted to skip Steve to high school, but his parents refused. After high school Steve enrolled at Reed College in Portland,Oregon. Jobs dropped out of Reed College after about six months ("Steve Jobs - Biography - Inventor - Biography.com." ). …show more content…
Jobs co-founded Apple computer with his friend Wozniak in the family garage 1976. There first computer was marked $666.6 each. Steve’s computers were so excellent because they were so much smaller than the computers before his. The first year, the company was worth $774,000. Three years later his business shot up to $139 million. 1980 Steves successful business took off.That year it became a publicly traded company.With a value of 1.2 billion dollars by the end of the first day of trading. Jobs decided to hire a president for Apple. So he hired marketing expert John Sculley of Pepsi-Cola. Around 1984 Apple released the Macintosh computer. Apple believed Steve was damaging their company so they began to phase him out. As a result Steve decided to leave Apple in 1985. He began a new hardware and software enterprise that he named NEXT("Steve Jobs - Biography - Inventor - Biography.com."