Profile of Steve Jobs, Son of Muslim Immigrants Who Founded Apple

Behind the glory of Apple, there is the figure of Steve Jobs who started the company from his garage with Steve Wozniak.

Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, United States, on February 24, 1955 to Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali, a Muslim immigrant from Syria.

Because the relationship was not approved by her father, Joanne was forced to give up Jobs for adoption shortly after birth.

He was later adopted by his adoptive parents, Paul and Clara Jobs, who changed his birth name from Abdul Lateef Jandali to Steve Paul Jobs. Together with Paul and Clara, he lives in Silicon Valley, the electronics industry district in the US.

As a child, Jobs was known as a nosy but intelligent child, so he was offered to take part in an acceleration program to jump class to high school. But this offer was rejected by Jobs’ parents.

When he was 12 years old, Jobs began to show an interest in technology after seeing a working demonstration of a computer device at the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Club.

Jobs also often attended seminar sessions at the Hewlett-Packard (HP) factory when he was still in high school. On one occasion, he even ventured to ask HP CEO William Hewlett for engine parts.