Born in San Francisco, California in 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption, nobody knew what would become of Steve Jobs. Ever since a young age, Steve Jobs had been interested in technological mechanics. Surprisingly, Steve Jobs actually started making his first products for Apple in his garage, and he experimented with many different ideas before finally starting the popular company, Apple, with Steve Wozniak in 1976. For example, he took a position as a video game designer with Atari in 1974, and purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios, which made popular movies such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles. Apple's life-changing products, …show more content…
He continued to pursue technology and create many more wonderful inventions until he finally got back into Apple as the CEO. However, in 2003, Jobs discovered that he had pancreatic cancer. In 2004, he had a successful surgery to remove the pancreatic tumor. In 2011, Apple Inc. announced that its co-founder had passed away after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly a decade. Steve Jobs inspired many people, including myself, to never give up. He kept pursuing what he loved and was always trying new things. Born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955, Bill Gates had always had an interest in computer programming, in which he eventually pursued at college. He and Paul Allen built the world's largest software business, known as Microsoft. In his early years, Bill Gates became entranced with what a computer could do and spent much of his free time working on them. He even wrote a tic-tac-toe program in basic computer language that allowed users to play against the computer. In 1970, at the age of 15, Bill Gates and Paul Allen made "Traf-o-Data," a computer program that monitored traffic patterns in Seattle.. In 1975, Gates and Allen formed a partnership they called Micro-Soft, a blend of "micro-computer" and "software."