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1. Steve Jobs
1.1. Humble Beginnings
Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer Corporation, is one of the most successful
entrepreneurs of our generation. His success story is legendary. His unwed mother decided to put
him for adoption immediately after Steve was born because he was "an unexpected baby".
He went to college but decided to drop out because it was too expensive.
Recalling his time there Steve Jobs said, "I didn’t have a dorm room, so I
slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits
to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday
night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple."
At 20, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started a company in a garage on April 1, 1976
after Steve saw a computer Wozniak designed for himself. Jobs named their company – Apple in
memory of a happy summer he had spent as an orchard worker in Oregon. Later that year, the
duo debuted the Apple I at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California. A local store
offered to buy 50 machines and to finance the production, the duo had to sell their most
expensive possessions. Jobs sold his Volkswagen van while Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard
scientific calculator.
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Bibliography:
Succes Story Steve Jobs , Web, February 17 2011,
http://www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/cs_entrepreneurs_jobs.html