Steve Jobs and his son. A New Kind of School: How Steve Jobs' Widow is Changing Education. early biography

Lauren Powell received her education at the University of Pennsylvania; first she received her Bachelor of Arts, then her Bachelor of Economics. In 1991, Powell received her MBA from Stanford (Stanford Graduate School of Business).

Lauren married Steve Jobs on March 18, 1991; The wedding ceremony took place at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, and was chaired by Zen Buddhist Kobun Chino Otogawa. In September 1991, Steve and Lauren had a son, Reed; in 1995 his younger sister Erin was born, and in 1998 Lauren gave birth to her second daughter, Eve. Lived Lauren, Steve and their children in Palo Alto, California (Palo Alto, California).

Founded by Lauren Jobs, Terravera supplies natural products to retail chains Northern California. In addition, Lauren is sitting in

the board of directors of the "Achieva" project, which supplies network programs for education and additional training. It is also known that Lauren worked for some time at Merrill Lynch Asset Management and Goldman Sachs.

For some time now Lauren Jobs is quite active in non-profit projects; She works primarily with educational groups, women's rights activists and artists. As of 2011, Lauren was on the boards of at least seven well-known charitable companies. One of her most famous projects of this kind, of course, was the non-profit organization "College Track", founded back in 1997-

m; This organization is engaged in raising the standards of school education and supporting talented students from various national and social minorities. Lauren has achieved truly impressive results - of all "College Track" wards, about 90% go to college, and 70% successfully complete it within 6 years.

In December 2010, Barack Obama included Lauren Powell Jobs on the White House Council for Community Solutions; this advice recommends to the president better ways solving the most complex social problems (mainly related to education and employment).

Stephen Jobs was born in the mid-50s in San Francisco, California. His father, Syrian Abdulfatta Jandali, was a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin, and his mother, Joan Schible, is a young student of the same educational institution... On his mother, Steve has German roots. Joan and Abdulfatta were not married, the girl's family was categorically against the relationship of young people. Therefore, Stephen's mother was forced to leave to give birth to a private California clinic, and then give her son to foster parents.

Paul Jobs and his wife Clara could not have children of their own and happily adopted the baby. The biological mother put forward the only requirement: the boy must receive higher education.

After 2 years, Steve had a half-sister, Patty, whom Paul and Clara also adopted. The family soon left San Francisco and moved to the small town of Mountain View. This is where Paul Jones, who was a car mechanic, had an easier time finding Good work and earn money to fund college fees for the kids. Paul tried to instill an interest in mechanics and his son, but Steve was much more attracted to electronics. Coupled with the fact that Mountain View is a center of high technology, it can be said that Steve's future was a foregone conclusion in early childhood.

IN primary school Stephen Jobs had big problems with teachers. The education system itself seemed boring, formal and soulless to the child. Only after one of the teachers was able to find the right approach to the student, the boy began to study diligently and even jumped through 2 classes. Studying in high school, Steve attended a radio electronics club, independently assembled an electronic frequency counter and even worked part-time on a conveyor belt at the famous Hewlett-Packard company.

When the guy was 16 years old, he began to have conflicts with his parents, primarily with his father, because of his passion for hippie culture, music and The Beatles, smoking marijuana and using LSD. Then Stephen meets the namesake - who was 5 years older than him. The guys become best friends, as both are addicted to computers and electronics.

The first joint invention of Jobs and Wozniak was born when Stephen was still a high school student. They made a device, called a blue box, designed to hack into the telephone network by picking up tone mode signals. At first, the guys were just having fun, and then they began to sell their product and made good money.

In 1972, Steve Jobs entered the private liberal arts college Reed College, which had a rich curriculum. After studying for only six months, Jobs quits school, because he sees no reason to waste time on meaningless activities. During this period, he was much more attracted to oriental spiritual practices, vegetarianism, veganism and Zen Buddhism.

Apple

Stephen starts working as a technician at start-up company Atapi, which has been manufacturing computer games... At the same time, Wozniak was working on the creation and improvement of boards for his own personal computer. When the idea began to take shape practically, Jobs invited a friend to create a joint computer firm. This is how the legendary Apple company appeared. When working on the first version of the Apple I computer, Jobs proved to be an authoritarian, somewhat tyrannical and aggressive, but at the same time, an organizer.

Apple founders

The first computer was primitive and looked more like an electronic typewriter. And here new board, which Wozniak developed in 1976, already knew how to work with color, sound, and could connect external media. And Steve Jobs put his leadership skills in the field of device promotion and was able to reorient production towards creating computers for an inexperienced user.

It was his idea that the new Apple II owes a beautiful plastic case and a neat appearance... Jobs also hired a professional advertising specialist, Regis McKenna, and everyone started talking about the new computer.

This was followed by the Apple III, Apple Lisa and Macintosh. The firm thrived commercially, but discord and scandal reigned among the executives, thanks in large part to the difficult nature of Stephen Jobs.

NeXT and Pixar Studio

As a result, he was suspended from work, and in 1984 Jobs leaves his own brainchild, but immediately organizes new company NeXT Computer. The computers of this company offered the market extremely advanced innovations, slightly ahead of their time. But like the latest inventions at Apple, it turns out to be too expensive for the mainstream consumer.

In parallel with this project, Steve Jobs, who just became interested in computer graphics, buys Pixar studio from George Lucas for $ 5 million. His original idea was to use animated films to advertise the capabilities of the computers offered by NeXT. But after the 1987 animated film Tin Toy won an Oscar, Jobs changed his mind. Later, this studio released such famous full-length animated films as Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille and others.

In 2006, Steve sells Pixar to Disney for $ 7.5 billion. However, he remained a shareholder.

Return to Apple

In 1996, Steve Jobs sells NeXT to his first company for nearly half a billion dollars and returns to Apple as an advisor to the chairman.

The first achievement of Jobs in his new capacity was the serial release of the new all-in-one computer iMac, which attracted with its unusual futuristic design. This device became the best-selling computer in Apple stories, and about a third of the copies were bought by users who had not previously been the owners of computer equipment. Consequently, Steve Jobs was able to find for the company new market consumers.

Second successful step was the creation of the Apple Store - a specialized store for the sale of equipment Apple.

The uniqueness of Steve Jobs was that he did not just keep his finger on the pulse of the times. He himself created a new time and dictated the laws of fashion in the IT industry. Realizing that the new century was becoming impetuous, he set up the production of miniature, but perfect in their capabilities, devices: iTunes media player, iPod music player, iPhone touchscreen mobile phone, iPad Internet tablet. Each of these devices appeared before analogues and imposed standards and parameters on competing companies.

Many books have been written about Jobs and a large number of documentaries and feature films have been shot. Most interesting printed edition is an authorized biography of Steve Jobs, released in 2011. The author of the book is American journalist Walter Isaacson.

Of the films, it is worth highlighting documentary work IGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World, which directed the Discovery Channel and the feature film Jobs: Empire of Seduction, starring the legendary Jobs.

Personal life

In his youth, Steve was loving, as it should be in hippie culture. The first notable woman in his life was Chris Ann Brennan. Their relationship was difficult, the couple often quarreled and separated. In 1978, Chris gave birth to a daughter, Lisa Brennan, whom Jobs initially did not recognize. But after a DNA test, he agreed to paternity.

Later, he had a relationship with Barbara Yasinski, who was engaged in advertising, with folk singer Joan Baez, with a computer consultant Tina Redse, with whom he parted after the girl refused to marry him.

The only wife of a businessman was Lauren Powell, who at the time of their acquaintance was a bank employee. It is curious that, having made an offer in 1990, Jobs forgot about the bride for several months, as he plunged into another business project.

However, in March 1991, Steve and Lauren became spouses, and in September they had their first child, their son Reed. After 4 years, daughter Erin appeared, and in 1998 - little Eve. Interestingly, Steve forbade his children to use computers for a long time, limited the time of "communication" with iPhones and iPads.

In the mid-80s, Steve Jobs tracked down his biological mother and met his own sister Mona, with whom he began to maintain friendly relations.

Sickness and death

Steve Jobs made his last public appearance on June 6, 2011. Several years earlier, the businessman was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He fought him different ways, including alternative ones, but the disease won. Steve Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011 with his family.

She is one of the richest women in the world - her fortune is estimated at $ 20.7 billion. Let's find out a little more about the life of a businesswoman and philanthropist.

Lauren Powell Jobs was born in West Milford, New Jersey in 1963. Her father, a pilot, died in a plane crash when she was 3 years old, and a little later her mother remarried.

After graduating in Political Science and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, Powell Jobs briefly worked with Wall Street banks such as Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, then traveled west to complete her MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business by 1989. ...

One day, Steve Jobs, who was supposed to be a guest speaker, found himself in a seat next to her in a university auditorium. He remembered the girl, and later he invited her to dine together.

They married in March 1991 at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park. The couple have three children: Reed, Erin and Eve.

When Jobs died of cancer in 2011, his wife inherited his fortune - including 5.5 million shares in Apple and 7.3% in The Walt Disney Company. This instantly made her a billionaire.

Powell's stake in Disney made Powell the company's largest individual shareholder, according to Variety, but by 2017 she had cut her holdings in the company in half.

Powell Jobs has a strong focus on philanthropy. “We want to use our knowledge, connections and relationships to try to bring as much benefit to society as possible,” she told The New York Times in 2013.

In the early 90s, she founded Terravera, a natural products company dedicated to developing organic raw materials for the food and feed industries, including legumes and cereals. Powell later left the company in person to spend more time with her family.

In 1997, Powell Jobs founded College Track, a non-profit organization that helped low-income applicants prepare for college. College Track later opened eight offices in California, Colorado and Louisiana.

In the early 2000s, Powell Jobs founded the Emerson Collective, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Foundation, which disburses grants and investments in global migration, social justice and education. Being rather private company than a traditional non-profit organization, the Emerson Collective Foundation also funds startups like AltSchool, an experimental school that tries to personalize learning with the latest technologies.

Last September, Powell Jobs pledged $ 50 million to develop XQ: The Super School Project, which seeks to reform education from the inside out by offering universities a new approach to the curriculum. She is the chairman of the XQ board of directors.

Powell Jobs has served on the board of several organizations, including Teach for America, Conservation International, and the New America Foundation. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Board of Trustees of Stanford University.

Along with Michael Bloomberg and Ray Dalio, Powell Jobs is one of the founders of the Climate Governance Council.

Powell is also interested in the world of professional sports: she bought a stake in Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which owns the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals teams, as well as the Capital One Arena.

Through the Emerson Collective, Powell Jobs brought in writer Leon Wieseltier to launch a new magazine called Idea. However, she backed out of the venture in October, when Wieseltier's former New Republic colleagues turned against him on charges of sexual harassment.

On July 28, 2017, Emerson Collective acquired a majority stake in The Atlantic. Powell Jobs issued a statement in which she thanked the magazine for “striving for equality for all people, the desire to support and protect American idea, pay tribute to American culture and literature, and illuminate our wonderful, if sometimes chaotic, democratic experiment. "

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Steve Jobs with daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Weddings of one of the most eligible grooms in the world high tech had to wait a long time.

In early 1991, while NeXT and Pixar were fighting for life, Jobs's personal life began new crisis: his girlfriend Lauryn Powell got pregnant.

By that time, Jobs was thirty-six, and he had long grown out of the image of the young arrogant insolent, which he was in 1978, when they had a daughter, Lisa, with an old school friend. Jobs was serious about Powell, a sophomore at Stanford University Business School. He proposed to her twice: the last time on a year-end trip to Hawaii. Steve has already given the bride a ring. And suddenly he doubted again.

He interviewed friends. I racked my brains trying to predict the consequences of my step. He declared his rejection of the very idea of ​​a wedding and tried to pretend that nothing out of the ordinary was happening. A frustrated Loreen, who was twenty-seven at the time, left Jobs' house and returned to her apartment for the second time in a year.

In the end, Jobs made a decision worthy of an adult. Steve and Lauryn got married on March 18, 1991. They were married by Steve's longtime acquaintance and his spiritual mentor Kobun Chino in a hut in the middle of Yosemite National Park. The cake was vegetarian, and after that a group of about fifty guests invited to the ceremony went for a walk, despite the fact that it was snowing outside.

From the moment he broke up with Brennan and before meeting Powell, Jobs had a whole string of girlfriends. Shortly after Brennan moved to Oregon, Jobs began dating a girl from an advertising agency that worked with Apple. Their relationship lasted for several years. In the early eighties, when Jobs was already a multimillionaire and the idol of many people interested in technology, his circle of friends naturally changed. For a couple of years, for example, he met from time to time with folk singer Joan Baez, although she was fourteen years older than Steve. The Macintosh team was shocked when he brought the singer to work one day to show off a project that was considered a closely guarded trade secret. Joan went with Jobs to corporate parties. In the end, the age difference was obviously too great.

Steve has appeared a couple of times with Maya Lin, creator of the Vietnam War Memorial, and with actress Diana Keaton. During the year he met with a graduate student at Pennsylvania State University named Jennifer Egan. Steve visited her every time he went to the East Coast. He talked to Jennifer about how harmful it is to develop a dependence on material objects, and she argued with Jobs, asking him how he could then make computers that people buy. “There was always a heated debate on this issue,” Jennifer recalled.

Egan, who later became a writer and Pulitzer Prize winner, told Jobs that she was too young to marry, and that ended their relationship.

In 1984, a journalist from BusinessWeek asked what Steve was interested in during an interview, and Jobs said, "I love movies and romance with women."

What women? “Young, smart and artistic. I think there are more of them in New York than in Silicon Valley, ”Jobs replied.

Jobs' first serious, long-term relationship began at the Apple office when Steve met visiting artist and designer Tina Redey. They began a long whirlwind romance. In the mid-eighties, Jobs acquired an old Spanish-style mansion that had fourteen bedrooms but little furniture. Tina moved in with him, although Steve continued to sleep on the mattress on the floor and was such a perfectionist that he would not even allow her to buy a bed. In the end, life without furniture began to annoy Tina, and she returned to her place.

Nevertheless, the fire between them did not die out, at least not enough, because NeXT employees later recalled how "these two constantly kissed and cuddled in the waiting room." However, in addition to bouts of mutual adoration, the partners were visited by fits of rage towards each other, which sometimes happened in public. Like Chrisanna Brennan, Tina often resented how cold and heartless Jobs was at times and how easily he could offend her and those around her. In addition, Tina felt that he needed to spend more time with his daughter, who was attending elementary school at the time.

Ross Perot was surprised that Jobs would never marry Redya, and in 1989 Steve finally decided to propose. However, Tina rejected him, deciding that nothing good would come of their marriage, but in general this did not affect their relationship in any way.

Lauryn Powell burst into Jobs' life one spring evening, meeting him at Stanford University Business School, where Steve was to speak to students. Lauryn came there with a friend, but there was no room for her, and she took one of the seats reserved for guests of honor. When Jobs arrived, he sat down in the next chair, and Lorin, seeing the guest of honor next to her, decided to joke, saying that she had won the competition for the right to dine with him.

Steve Jobs with wife Lauryn Powell

After Steve's speech, they chatted a little more, but Jobs had to go to the NeXT meeting. But once in the car, he felt that he wanted to return. “I was sitting in the car in the parking lot and had already started the engine, when suddenly the thought occurred to me: if this is my last evening on earth, what would I prefer to do - sit in a meeting or spend it with a woman? Jumping out of the car, I ran back, found her and asked if she would like to have dinner with me. She agreed, and more we never parted, "- said Steve.

Powell, who was born in New Jersey, lost her father early and learned what the struggle for existence is. The beautiful golden-haired blonde athlete and vegetarian was educated at Pennsylvania State University and worked for the prestigious Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs until she decided to pursue her MBA. Loreen possessed all the qualities that make it possible to achieve success in life: intelligence, beauty, and a great resume.

Their relationship also had its ups and downs. Once Jobs, inviting her to marry him, subsequently avoided this topic for several months. At times Lauryn occupied all his thoughts, and then a period came when he pretended that she did not exist. Powell was sometimes intimidated by the dark side of his nature, but as a strong woman, she knew how to endure.

In the period of mental confusion that followed after leaving Apple, Jobs was the only one close to Powell who recognized Jobs. For many years after the birth of Lisa, he avoided contact with her and her mother, Chrisanna Brennan. “I didn't want to become a father, so I wasn't,” Steve told his biographer

Walter Isaacson during an interview. Sometimes he stopped by Krisanna to talk, but the child did not seem to exist for him.

However, after leaving Apple, when the NeXT office near where Brennan lived became the main place of work for Jobs, Steve began to visit her more often, began to take Lisa with him to dinner, and once even brought her to the company's headquarters. , where she, according to the recollections of employees, turned the "wheel" in the corridor. When Lisa grew up, she and her father often walked or roller-skated.

However, Lisa later wrote: “My mother raised me for the most part alone. We lived modestly, but our relationship was warm, and we were happy. We moved frequently. " In fact, there were thirteen crossings. Lisa only knew about her father that he was a rich and famous person, but gradually she learned more and more. Once, when Lisa was a teenager, Steve took her with him on a business trip to Tokyo.

While at Apple, Steve ditched his radical approach to food choices, saying that “the need to constantly communicate and interact with people imposes its limitations on the person who wants to lead healthy image life ". However, after leaving the corporation, Steve returned to a strict vegetarian diet - with an exception only for sushi, which he had become addicted to. During a trip to Tokyo, he and Lisa went to a sushi bar on the lower floor of the hotel to eat unagi sushi, a Japanese freshwater eel with rice. Eel sushi was served in two varieties - with salt or sweet sauce. “It was very tasty,” Lisa recalled, “the sushi melted in my mouth.” The distance between her and her eternally absent father also melted. “For the first time in my life, I felt happy and contented next to him,” wrote Lisa. - It seemed that the door opened, behind which the space was hidden, where before I I could not get there. We sat in a cafe with high ceilings and small armchairs, ate sushi, and human features appeared in my father, who had seemed to me aloof and unbending before. "

Shortly after Steve and Lauryn's wedding, Lisa moved in with her father and lived with him and his wife until graduation. After graduating from high school, she went to Harvard and became a writer. As with all loved ones, Jobs was sometimes cold towards his daughter, sometimes full of love for her. Sometimes they did not communicate for months or even years. (One of these periods coincided with Lisa's graduation from university: she did not invite her father to graduation, and he did not show a desire to come.)

Another piece of the puzzle that Jobs' life often resembled developed during this period.

In the mid-eighties, doctors diagnosed Clara Jobs with lung cancer. While visiting her at the hospital, Steve asked her mother about her past and learned that she had been married once before meeting Paul. Her first husband was killed in the war. Clara told Steve the details of his adoption, which he did not know about before.

Until this moment, Jobs made no attempts to find biological parents, as he was afraid to hurt Paul and Clara, whom he dearly loved and considered to be a real father and mother. But when Clara passed away in November 1986 at the age of sixty-two, he told Paul about his desire, and his father assured him that he had nothing against it.

As a result of his own investigation and with the help of a private detective, Jobs found Joanna Shible in Los Angeles. He learned that his father was Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, a graduate student of Syrian descent who later became a professor of political science. Joanna returned to Wisconsin after Jobs was born. After the death of her father, she married Jandali and gave birth to another child, a girl named Mona.

So Steve found out that he has a sister.

A few years later, Dzhandali left the family, and Joanna remarried. The relationship with her second husband also went wrong, and they divorced, but both Joanna and Mona continued to bear his last name - Simpson.

Jobs traveled to Los Angeles and, visiting Joanna Simpson, thanked her for giving him life. Joanna apologized to Steve several times, saying that she had longed for him all her life.

Soon after, in New York, Steve met Mona, who became a writer and worked for a literary magazine called Paris Revue. She had just finished a novel called Anywhere But Here, which was about her and her mother moving from Wisconsin to Los Angeles.

Mona and Steve immediately felt sympathy for each other and discovered, among other things, a mutual passion for long walks, a love of work, and a strong will. Jobs, who had never had a deep affection for Patty, with whom he grew up in the same house, became a close friend of Mona and introduced her to his bride and daughter Lisa.

The writer Mona Simpson, sister of Steve Jobs, whom he met only in his 40s

Mona, like many other writers, often drew plots from the lives of loved ones and in the mid-nineties, being already a recognized novelist, she wrote the book "The Ordinary Guy" about a narcissistic young workaholic who ignores his own daughter until he is expelled from work ... The novel begins with the phrase: "He was too busy to flush the toilet behind him." Although this is a literary work, Jobs definitely served as the prototype for the protagonist, and when reading the work, it is impossible to tell exactly where the facts end and the fiction begins.

Mona, who was also interested in her origins, undertook an independent investigation and found her father in the California city of Sacramento. However, Jobs did not show a desire to get to know him, fearing that his biological father would try to blackmail him in order to get a share in his huge fortune. He asked his sister not to mention him in the conversation.

Mona went to Sacramento alone. Dzhandali left teaching and went to catering business... During the conversation, he said that before her, he and Joanna had another child, a boy. “We will never see him again,” Abdulfattah said.

He told her about his restaurants, mentioning that one of the establishments specializing in Mediterranean cuisine is located near San Jose. To Mona's complete surprise, she heard the following: “All the celebrities from Silicon Valley went there. Even Steve Jobs. "

Jandali described Jobs as "a sweet young man who never skimps on tips."

Mona had to use all the willpower at her disposal to keep her promise to Steve.

Immediately after the conversation ended, she rushed to call Jobs. Steve was shocked - and remembered not only the restaurant, but also the owner. “Balding Syrian. He shook my hand again, ”he said later.

So the missing parts of the Jobs family gradually came together. A little later, in September 1991, Powell gave birth to a son. To find his name - Reed Paul Jobs - his parents had to spend two weeks. "You can't find a name for a new product so quickly," Jobs joked in the official announcement of the baby's birth.

The birth of a baby changed Jobs' attitude to life. “It seems like a switch goes off in your head, and a whole avalanche of feelings falls on you that you never knew existed,” he said a few months after the birth of his son. “Many people told me what a significant event it was, but from hearsay I would never understand how important it is.”

The family moved to new house in Palo Alto. The couple did not want their children to grow up in luxury, and Mona Simpson recalled that the Jobs lived very modestly. Soon after the birth of their first child, Steve and Lauryn often dined on the grass, and lunch sometimes, according to Mona, "consisted of dishes made from a single vegetable," broccoli, for example, "with some delicious herb recently cut from the garden ".

Jobs and Powell bought a couple of beds and a number of other essentials, but almost nothing else. “The furniture issue remained theoretical for eight years,” Powell recalled. - We have asked ourselves more than once: "Why do sofas exist in the world?"

Even buying a washing machine turned out to be a daunting task. When the couple in the mid-nineties decided that they could not do without a car, they, according to Jobs, agreed that they liked European-made units that consume less water and handle clothes carefully, but at the same time require twice as long to complete the cycle. ...

“Most of the conversations at home were about the merits of washing machines,” Jobs recalled. The car was supposed to be the embodiment of design and high consumer properties. -

It was necessary to decide whether the machine should spend an hour on washing or can we endure one and a half? Is the drying quality important and do we want the clothes to last longer? How important is the amount of water used for washing? "

Discussion and debate continued over lunch every day for two weeks before the couple decided to opt for a German-made Miele washing machine. “These guys thought about the process well,” Jobs said. “Their machines shook me. I I haven’t had such a pleasure in technology for many years. ”

Buying a washing machine hardly equates to developing a computer or trying to make a dent in the universe, but Jobs is a different person. Jobs himself called the time after he was kicked out of Apple the "wilds" in which he wandered, far from the cutting edge of technological progress and the people with whom his first efforts turned out to be a resounding success. Now, having become a mature man, Jobs no longer expected serious changes in human life from the technological revolution. “Yes, unfortunately it is,” he told the journalist during an interview. - After the birth of a child, you start to look at these things differently. We are born, we spend a short moment on earth, called life, and we die, ”Jobs added. - And technology has almost no effect on this. If they do influence at all. "

While his two companies were struggling to survive, Jobs was building a family for the first time in his life - as an adult, a responsible person who finally found the meaning of life outside the office. Of course, his nature has not changed, and family life has not always been cloudless. And the difficult and not always obvious family ties, as you may have already understood, did not simplify life. In addition to the people he used to consider a father and mother, Steve had biological parents, a half-sister, a sister, a wife, three children from her, a daughter from a woman with whom he was never legally married, and Chrisanna Brennan herself.

In the end, Jobs managed to forge a close and warm relationship with almost everyone - with a few exceptions. Giandali eventually learned from the newspapers that Steve was his son, but he never tried to act as a father.

Paul Jobs, Steve's adoptive father, died in March 1993 at the age of seventy, and years later his son called him "a great man." Jobs was once asked what he would like to be in the eyes of his children, and Steve replied that “I would like to be the same father to them as my dad was to me. I I think about it every day. "

In turn, Paul Jobs was incredibly proud of his difficult but successful son and invariably came to his public appearances until his death.

In those difficult years, when life constantly challenged him, Jobs in the professional sense, perhaps, felt like a man lost and abandoned by his comrades, but he undoubtedly grew up in heart and soul - like a son, husband and father.

However, in the professional sphere, he did not have to experience only losses and losses.

In the early nineties, Jobs and Powell moved into a new home in Palo Alto and immediately felt so at home that they often forgot to even close the back door. However, Jobs did not sell his old mansion in the Woodside area, and later a whole war with neighbors broke out around it.

The 1,500-square-foot, Spanish Colonial Renaissance mansion with fourteen bedrooms and thirteen bathrooms Jobs hoped to someday demolish and replace it with a smaller, simpler home.

For several years, Steve's family has used the mansion with the pool for receiving guests and parties. When President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary came to visit their daughter, Chelsea, who was attending Stanford at the time, they stayed at a nearby mansion in the same area.

In mid-2004, Jobs asked the city's housing planning committee for permission to demolish a mansion built in 1926 for copper-mining tycoon Daniel C. Jacklin. Jobs said the quality of the construction is so depressing that "he has never seen anything more disgusting in his life."

However, neighbors, who considered the building to be historical, resisted Steve's desire to demolish it, deciding that the mansion should be preserved.

The Urban Development Commission agreed to issue a permit to Jobs, but only on the condition that within a year he would look for those willing to buy the mansion separately from the land and, after dismantling it, put it in a new place. In early 2005, the municipality supported this decision. Neighbors, not wanting to give up, filed a lawsuit against Jobs, and the permit was suspended for the duration of the proceedings. However, back in the early 2000s, Jobs stopped worrying about protecting the building from the ravages of bad weather, and by the end of the decade, it began to collapse.

In 2009, a new demolition permit was obtained. The neighbors were upset, but in February 2011 the building ceased to exist. Unfortunately, by this time Jobs had lost interest in building a new home.

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His name became a household name during his lifetime, and after the untimely death of Steve Jobs, the biography of this genius became a tasty morsel for screenwriters: two full-length films have already been shot about him. And the title role in Danny Boyle's biopic "Steve Jobs" brought Michael Fassbender an Oscar nomination. However, we are not talking about cinema at all! It is very difficult to present a detailed biography of Steve Jobs and tell about his personal in one article, so we will highlight the main milestones in the life of this iconic person.

Steve Jobs biography

Unwanted child

From the very first days of his life, Steve was "not like everyone else." He was the fruit of passion of Johanna Schible, a graduate student of the University of Wisconsin with German roots, and a Syrian, Abdulfattah Jandali, who worked in the department. Catholic Joan was unable to have an abortion, just as she could not keep the child for herself: her parents were categorically against it. Much later (after 31 years), Steve, suffering from the fact that his mother abandoned him, found his biological family and kept in touch with his relatives.

In the meantime, the baby, born on February 24, 1955, was adopted by the childless Jobs family. Californians Paul and his wife (Armenian by nationality) Clara named the boy Stephen Paul. They were pretty simple people- a mechanic and accountant, but Steve grew up as a young inventor. He did not get along very well with his peers, but he was on good terms with the technique.

Fateful acquaintance

One day, while on assignment for a research group run by Hewlett-Packard, Jobs realized that his frequency counter was lacking in parts. Without thinking for a long time, he called the head of the company, William Hewlett - not at work, but at home. He was imbued with the tenacity and intelligence of a 13-year-old teenager, shared the necessary details and invited him to work at Hewlett-Packard during the holidays. There, a fateful meeting took place - with an older guy, Steven Wozniak, Jobs' future companion.

Steve did not work out with his college studies - after the first semester, he left Reed College (it was too expensive for his parents to pay for him, and Jobs decided not to strain them). But during this semester, Steve managed to make friends with some students, switched to a vegetarian diet and became interested in Eastern philosophy. He lived with his friends in Portland for almost a whole year, interrupting odd jobs.

Steve Jobs's biography continued at Atari: by that time he returned to his native California, it was necessary to determine the profession. The work of the technician did not very much appeal to him, so he took a break - for the sake of a pilgrimage to India. It was a time of experimentation - Jobs took stimulants (including LSD), practiced therapeutic fasting, and hippie. After a seven-month journey, he returned to Atari.

During this period, there is a funny story that surfaced after the arrival of world fame to Jobs. He connected his friend Wozniak to one of the Atari projects: it was necessary to minimize the number of chips on the board for a video game, and a bonus was due for the savings. Wozniak met 44 chips and received half of the payment - $ 350. Years later, it turned out that Steve had cheated on a partner - in fact, he was paid not $ 700, but $ 5,000 (each piece was worth $ 100).

Own business: ambitious partners without a penny

Soon Jobs said goodbye to his old job - Wozniak persuaded a friend to start creating homemade computers for sale (Stephen had already made one for himself). They started with printed circuit boards, and then switched to PC assembly. In 1976, two Steves, having taken the third partner of the engineer Ronald Wayne, registered the company "Apple Computer Co". The starting capital was $ 1,300 (Jobs donated a minibus, and Wozniak donated a programmable calculator). However, Wayne soon left the company.

The name (to both the company and the computers) "Apple" was suggested by Steve - probably because he recently lived in a hippie commune, worked there by picking apples and was on an apple diet. Friends' first customer was a small electronics store. For a trial batch (50 computers at $ 666.66 per unit), they borrowed components. Soon the order was ready. In the same 1976, a computer for mass production was born.

Young millionaire

When Wozniak designed the Apple II, the logo was designed and agreed advertising campaign a new product, which the partners sold in an unprecedented "circulation": 5 million. So the 25-year-old Jobs became rich (his fortune exceeded a million dollars).

The next stage of the corporation was the invention of a computer with an interface in which commands were given by the cursor. In development was a model named after Jobs' daughter "Lisa". But tensions began in the firm, and as a result, Steve became the head of another project - "Macintosh", which later became a very popular PC in the electronics market. At the same time, Jobs managed to lure talented marketer John Scully out of the Pepsi-Cola Corporation. He eventually took over Apple, but they never got along with Steve. This was the reason for Jobs's departure from the company. Following him, in 1985, Wozniak left Apple.

At the head of the animation studio

Jobs, of course, found something to his liking: first he organized the NeXT corporation (it made hardware), and then, in 1986, headed the Pixar studio, a pioneer of computer animation (its founder in the late 1970s was George Lucas). The studio cost Jobs $ 5 million: Lucas was in a difficult situation (divorcing his wife) and needed money. It was at this studio that the cult Toy Story franchise, the animated masterpieces Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo and others were born. The box office grosses of these films were wild.

Recent successful projects

Ten years later, Steve sold Pixar to Walt Disney, but retained his seat on the board of directors. At that time he was already in office executive director Apple: the prodigal son (no, rather the founding father) is back!

He was always a genius of presentation - an excellent speaker who could win any audience, even the most distrustful, to his side. So in 2001, Steve himself made a presentation of the IPOD player, the serial production of which brought sky-high profits. In 2007, a similar revolution was made by the mobile phone "iPhone".

Steve Jobs's personal life

Stormy romances: from hippies to respectable businessman

Steve's first strong hobby was a girl of free morals - Chris Ann Brennan, with whom he fled from his parents even before leaving school and hippy in the mountains for some time. Then he was only 17 years old. The romance lasted for several years, and in 1978 Brennan gave birth to a child from Jobs - Lisa.

He did not want to admit paternity for a long time - they say, Chris met with other guys. And only years later, after DNA analysis, he began to communicate with his daughter.

As the business of Apple Computer Co. took off, Steve Jobs's personal life also changed. He had to fit the image of a businessman, so the hippie period was over. He became close to the beautiful advertiser Barbara Yasinski. A well-established life, an exquisite mansion - all this lasted until 1982.

A brief romance with Joan Baez flattered Steve. Ex-lover of Bob Dylan, herself a famous country singer, she was 14 years older than Jobs and raised her son.

For almost four years, Steve's relationship with another IT woman, Tina Redse, lasted. He considered the girl the most beautiful on earth and called her the first true love. True, the obstinate Tina refused the marriage proposal, which followed in 1989, and Steve backed down.

20-year marriage and three children

Steve was married only once. He met bank clerk Lauren Powell in the fall of 1989 - she healed Tina's wounds. At the beginning of the next year, the engagement took place, but then Steve got too carried away with new projects, and Lauren could not stand it and left. The disagreement was short-lived - a month later the groom gave the bride a ring, then they spent a vacation in Hawaii. And on March 18, 1991, a wedding ceremony was held in Yosemite Park, led by a Soto-Zen monk.

Lauren radically changed the personal life of Steve Jobs, became his "guiding star" and gave birth to three children in marriage: the eldest Reed (in the fall of 1991) and daughters Erin (in 1995) and Eve (in 1998). Jobs had no time for offspring - he remained full of ideas to the end and brought them to life. Although he loved to talk to his son, and Eve considered his worthy successor.

He fought with pancreatic cancer for a very long time - oncology was discovered in the fall of 2003. Steve delayed the operation, resorted to unconventional treatment... If not for this, an untimely end, perhaps, could have been avoided. But cancer still won - the genius of IT technologies, who adored frayed jeans and black turtlenecks, died on October 5, 2011.