Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in the city of San Francisco. His
biological mother was an unwed graduate student named Joanne Simpson,
and his biological father was either a political science or mathematics
professor, a native Syrian named Abdulfattah John Jandali.
Being born out of wedlock in the puritan America of the 1950s, the baby
was put up for adoption. Joanne had a college education, and she insisted
that the future parents of her boy be just as well educated. Unfortunately,
the candidates, Paul and Clara Jobs, did not meet her expectations: they
were a lower-middle class couple that had settled in the Bay Area after the
war. Paul was a machinist from the Midwest who had not even graduated
from high school. In the end, Joanne agreed to have her baby adopted by
them, under the firm condition that they later send him to college.
Paul and Clara called their new son Steven Paul. While Steve was still a
toddler, the couple moved to the Santa Clara county, later to be known as
Silicon Valley. They adopted another baby, a girl called Patti, three years
later in 1958.
"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
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