Introduction:

Our lives were changed when a young man had the desire to “have a thousand songs in his pocket,” “a phone that people would love.” (Lasseter) He is a perfect example of determination and faith. Jobs was an insecure, hippie kid that reinvented himself as a technological visionary and changed the world. (Goodell) Jobs was adopted and faced many insecurities due to it. His mother, Joanne Schieble, was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin who got involved with a Syrian student named Ab-dulfattah Jandali. When Schieble found out she was pregnant, her father objected to her marrying Syrian. (Goodell) His mother up and left and moved to San Francisco to have her baby so she could avoid the shame. (Goodell) Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24^th, 1955 and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. (Goodell) They didn’t know that their adopted baby would turn out to turn Apple into the most valued company in the world. He did. Worth an estimated $342 billion, Apple did and still is changing our lives today. (Goodell) At a time when software was the model, he built hardware. (Goodell) At a time when everyone focused on the macro, he focused on the micro and although he didn’t do anything first, he always did it best. (Goodell) As most know, he gave us the ability to do almost anything with the touch of a finger. One of Jobs co-workers, Bono, quotes, “He’s the Bob Dylan of machines. He’s the Elvis of the hardware-software dialectic.” (Goodell) 

Sources: Steve Jobs: Entrepreneur and Inventor, by John Lasseter, The Steve Jobs Nobody Know, by Jeff Goodell