Steve Jobs was an entrepreneur, marketer and inventor. He was the co-founder, CEO and president of Apple. He is also known for being the co-founder and CEO of Pixar Animations Studios. This essay will include Steve Jobs' biography, his successes and failures, and his leadership styles. Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California, to Abdul Faatah Jandali and Joanne Schieble, an unmarried couple who gave Jobs up for adoption. . He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs and grew up in Mountain View, California. Jobs had an adoptive sister, Patty. Jobs' passion for electronics came from his father, who was a mechanic and carpenter and would teach Jobs how to take things apart and rebuild things in their garage. At the age of thirteen Jobs got his first job at the HP factory. During high school Jobs met Steve Wozniak through a mutual friend, both of whom shared a love of electronics, Bob Dylan and pranks. After high school, Jobs attended Reeds College in Portland, Oregon, but dropped out of the program after one semester. Jobs instead took creative courses like calligraphy, which Jobs says is the reason for the Mac, he says: "If I had never taken that one calligraphy class in college, the Mac would never have had multiple typefaces or spaced fonts proportional". He never finished college. After returning from college, Jobs got a job as a technician at Atari, a video game manufacturer. The reason he got this job was because his friend Steve Wozniak created his own version of a classic pong video game and gave it to him. then took it to Atari. With the money he earned at Atari Jobs took a trip to India with his college friend to seek enlightenment. Jobs found his biological mother and discovered that ... middle of paper ... .a caring person. But he was a good leader because he achieved such great success and is so respected. All the products and all the money that Apple obtained before Steve Jobs' death are due to his passion for electronics this is demonstrated by the awards he obtained. He was such a great and highly respected leader and this is proven when after his death the Apple website for two weeks had a black and white photo of him with his birth and death date. When you clicked on his photo, his obituary opened, which read: Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an extraordinary human being. Those of us who were fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.