Ashlinn Hoffmeister 

Mrs. Godfrey  

Leadership Studies  

Steve Jobs Biographical Research  

Full Name  Steven Paul Jobs 

Lifespan  -February 24, 1955-October 5, 2011 

-Died at 56 years old.  

Early Family Background and Created Family  -Born in San Francisco, California to parents 
Structure  who put him up for adoption at birth.   
-Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne 
Schieble 
-His mother wanted him to be adopted into a 
couple that was, “Catholic, well-educated, 
and wealthy.” (Steve Jobs) but this family 
decided to adopt a little girl instead. 
-Steve was then adopted by a blue collar 
couple who didn’t attend college. 
-Schieble refused to sign the adoption papers 
and they went to court. His new parents won 
as soon as they agreed to go to college.   
-He was raised in San Francisco in the 1960s 
by Paul Jobs and Clara Hagopian 
-Attended Reed College in 1972 before 
dropping out that same year. 
-He then traveled to India in 1974 for 
enlightenment and studied Zen Buddhism.  
-He used lSD and marijuana and called that 
one of the top three most important things 
he had done in his life.  
-Loved mechanics and electronics-highly 
influenced by his father at a young age.  

Major Career/Professional Events and  -Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 
Accomplishments  to sell Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer.  
-They start assembling Apple I computers 
and sell them to computer hobbyists.  
-Becomes the first working graphical user 
interface as Xerox PARC 
-Took over Jef Raskin Macintosh business.  
 -Most famous as a co-founder, Chairman, 
and CEO of Apple Inc and former CEO of PIxar 
animation studios.  
-He founded NeXt after resigning from apple 
in 1985.  

Personality Characteristics and Areas of  -Loved mechanics and 

Aptitude, Talent, and Interest  electronics-considered it “heaven”  
-Loving, family man 
-Had difficulty functioning in a classroom 
and tended to resist anyone in the position of 
authority or misbehave. (he was suspended a 
few times)  

Personal Life Themes/Beliefs  -He had a very stubborn attitude since 

childhood and this carried into his passion for 
electronics when he got older because he 
never gave up, even when he was diagnosed 
with cancer.  

Selected Quotations  “I had no idea what I wanted to do with my 

life and no idea how college was going to help 
me figure it out.” 
 
“I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that 
getting fired from Apple was the best thing 
that could have ever happened to me. The 
heaviness of being successful was replaced 
by the lightness of being a beginner again, 
less sure about everything. It freed me to 
enter one of the most creative periods of my 
life.” 

“Because almost everything — all external 

expectations, all pride, all fear of 
embarrassment or failure — these things just 
fall away in the face of death, leaving only 
what is truly important.” 

 
 Awards and Recognition  -Named “Entrepreneur of the decade” by Inc. 
magazine 
-Walter Isaacson published his biography 
after his death.  
-named CEO of Apple Inc and Pixar