Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali were single parents of a baby boy born on February 24, 1955. They made the life-changing decision to put this baby up for adoption. One of the candidates for adoption was Paul and Clara Jobs. Joanne and Adbulfattah wanted their son to be able to go to college and get a well-paying job. Paul and Clara were a lower-middle-class couple. The child's biological parents were reluctant to allow Jobs to adopt him, but they eventually allowed it. The Jobses moved to Mountain View a few years after adopting the little boy they eventually named Steven Paul Jobs. Steve Jobs grew up in a lower middle class neighborhood with engineers working on a bunch of electronics and multiple gadgets in their garages. At the age of 13, Jobs met one of the most influential and important people in his life. 18-year-old Stephen Wozniak, better known as "Woz", was an electronic genius and, like Steve, an incredible prankster. Five years later, the Jobs had to keep their promise to their son's biological parents and send their son to college. Steve was interested in Reed College. Reed College is a very expensive liberal arts college in Oregon. Steve only went to Reed for one semester and then dropped out. He was interested in other things like Eastern philosophy, LSD and fruit diets. A few months later, he moved to a hippie commune where he spent most of his time growing apples. After a few months spent in Oregon in the hippie commune, Jobs wanted to look for work and returned to California. He was hired by Atari, a young video game creator. He used his earnings to take a trip to India to “seek enlightenment” with one of his college friends. Jobs came...... middle of paper...... they announced that they would be doing a reorganization of Apple where Steve had no operational duties. He would only remain chairman of the board of directors. Steve was devastated. Apple was his business and he was basically kicked out. After a few months of traveling and brainstorming new ideas, Jobs returned to Apple in September with a devious plan. Create your own IT company for higher education. He would start this group with former Apple employees. When Apple executives found out about his new project, they decided to sue him for taking valuable company information to compete. As a result of all this, Jobs resigned in September 1985 and sold all but one of his shares in Apple. He continued his new business and formed NeXT. Apple dropped its lawsuit against Jobs a few months later.