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iCon Steve Jobs They gave him the name Steven Paul Jobs. He was born to an American mother, Joanne Simpson, and a Syrian father, Abdulfattah (“John”) Jandali, a political science professor, in Green Bay, Wisconsin on February 24, 1955. Soon after his birth, Jobs was put up for adoption. Subsequently he was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California. They gave him the name Steven Paul Jobs. His biological parents later married and gave birth to Jobs’ biological sister the novelist Mona Simpson, who is married to Richard Appel. The marriage of his biological parents ended in divorce years later. To this day, Jobs dislikes Paul and Clara Jobs being called his adoptive parents, and prefers to simply refer to them as his “parents.” Page 2 Jobs went to Homestead High School in Cupertino, California and attended afterschool lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Co. in Palo Alto, California. Soon, he was hired there and worked with Stephen Wozniak as a summer employee. In 1972, Job