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===Apple (1976–1985)===
{{quote box|width=25em|align=right|quote=Basically [[Steve Wozniak]] and I invented the Apple because we wanted a personal computer. Not only couldn't we afford the computers that were on the market, those computers were impractical for us to use. We needed a [[Volkswagen Type 2|Volkswagen]]. The Volkswagen isn't as fast or comfortable as other ways of traveling, but the VW owners can go where they want, when they want and with whom they want. The VW owners have personal control of their car.|source=—Steve Jobs<ref>{{cite book|last=Young|first=Jefferey S.|title=Steve Jobs: The Journey is the Reward.|date=December 1988|publisher=Lynx Books|isbn=155802378X|
By March 1976, Wozniak completed the basic design of the [[Apple I]] computer and showed it to Jobs, who suggested that they sell it; Wozniak was at first skeptical of the idea but later agreed.{{sfn|Linzmayer|2004|pp=5–6}} In April of that same year, Jobs, Wozniak, and administrative overseer [[Ronald Wayne]] founded Apple Computer Company (now called "Apple Inc.") as a [[business partnership]] in Jobs's parents' Crist Drive home on April 1, 1976. The operation originally started in Jobs's bedroom and later moved to the garage.{{sfn|Linzmayer|2004|pp=6–8}}<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://extras.denverpost.com/books/chap0411h.htm |title=Apple Confidential: The Real Story of Apple Computer, Inc |last=Linzmayer |first=Owen W. |work=The Denver Post |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414125259/http://extras.denverpost.com/books/chap0411h.htm |archive-date=April 14, 2012 }}</ref> Wayne stayed briefly, leaving Jobs and Wozniak as the active primary cofounders of the company.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/06/24/apple.forgotten.founder/index.html |title=The gambling man who co-founded Apple and left for $800 |last=Simon |first=Dan |date=June 24, 2010 |access-date=June 24, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410065148/http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/06/24/apple.forgotten.founder/index.html?hpt=C1&fbid=lG95iTlU4iD |archive-date=April 10, 2014 |publisher=CNN}}</ref>
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| quote = For what characterizes Apple is that its scientific staff always acted and performed like artists – in a field filled with dry personalities limited by the rational and binary worlds they inhabit, Apple's engineering teams had passion. They always believed that what they were doing was important and, most of all, fun. Working at Apple was never just a job; it was also a crusade, a mission, to bring better computer power to people. At its roots, that attitude came from Steve Jobs. It was "[[Power to the people (slogan)|Power to the People]]", the slogan of the sixties, rewritten in technology for the eighties and called [[Macintosh]].
| source = —Jeffrey S. Young, 1987<ref>{{cite book|last=Young|first=Jefferey S.|title=Steve Jobs: The Journey is the Reward.|date=December 1988|publisher=Lynx Books|isbn=155802378X|
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When Jobs denied paternity, a [[DNA paternity testing|DNA test]] established him as Lisa's father.<ref name="machineofthe year1" /> It required him to pay Brennan {{USD|385|1983|about=yes|long=no|round=-2}} monthly in addition to returning the welfare money she had received. Jobs paid her {{USD|500|1983|about=yes|long=no|round=-2}} monthly at the time when Apple went public and made him a millionaire. Later, Brennan agreed to interview with [[Michael Moritz]] for ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine for its [[Time Person of the Year]] special, released on January 3, 1983, in which she discussed her relationship with Jobs. Rather than name Jobs the Person of the Year, the magazine named the generic [[personal computer]] the "Machine of the Year".<ref>"Machine of the Year: The Computer Moves in". ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', January 3, 1983</ref> In the issue, Jobs questioned the reliability of the paternity test, which stated that the "probability of paternity for Jobs, Steven... is 94.1%".<ref name="machineofthe year1">Cocks, Jay. Reported by Michael Moritz. "[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953633,00.html The Updated Book of Jobs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209201759/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953633,00.html |date=February 9, 2015 }}" in "Machine of the Year: The Computer Moves in". ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', January 3, 1983:27.</ref> He responded by arguing that "28% of the male population of the United States could be the father". ''Time'' also noted that "the baby girl and the machine on which Apple has placed so much hope for the future share the same name: Lisa".<ref name="machineofthe year1" />
In 1978, at age 23, Jobs was worth over {{USD|1 million|long=no}} (equivalent to ${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|1000000|1978|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|USD}}). By age 25, his net worth grew to an estimated {{USD|250 million|long=no}} (equivalent to ${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|250000000|1981|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|USD}}). He was also one of the youngest "people ever to make the Forbes list of the nation's richest people—and one of only a handful to have done it themselves, without inherited wealth".<ref>{{cite book|last=Young|first=Jefferey S.|title=Steve Jobs: The Journey is the Reward.|date=December 1988|publisher=Lynx Books|isbn=155802378X|
In 1984, Jobs bought the [[Jackling House]] and estate and resided there for a decade. Thereafter, he leased it out for several years until 2000 when he stopped maintaining the house, allowing weathering to degrade it. In 2004, Jobs received permission from the town of Woodside to demolish the house to build a smaller, contemporary styled one. After a few years in court, the house was finally demolished in 2011, a few months before he died.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/14/BAUK1HN0JR.DTL |title=Steve Jobs' historic Woodside mansion is torn down |last=Lee |first=Henry K. |date=February 15, 2011 |work=The San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=February 7, 2022 |archive-date=December 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111225152428/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F02%2F14%2FBAUK1HN0JR.DTL |url-status=live }}</ref>
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Jobs proposed on New Year's Day 1990; they married on March 18, 1991, in a Buddhist ceremony at the [[Ahwahnee Hotel]] in [[Yosemite National Park]].<ref name="CNN Money"/> Fifty people, including Jobs's father, Paul, and his sister Mona, attended. The ceremony was conducted by Jobs's [[guru]], [[Kobun Chino Otogawa]].<ref name="CNN Money">{{cite web| first= Peter |last= Elkind |url= https://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index2.htm|title=America's Most Admired Companies: Steve Jobs (pg 2)|work=[[CNNMoney]]|date=March 5, 2008 |access-date=September 17, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100305185913/http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index2.htm|archive-date=March 5, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The vegan wedding cake was in the shape of Yosemite's [[Half Dome]], and the wedding ended with a hike and Laurene's brothers' snowball fight. Jobs reportedly said to Mona: "You see, Mona [...], Laurene is descended from [[Joe Namath]], and we're descended from [[John Muir]]".{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|p=274}}
Jobs's and Powell's first child, a son named [[Reed Jobs|Reed]], was born in 1991.{{sfn|Linzmayer|2004|p=81}} Jobs's father, Paul, died a year and a half later, on March 5, 1993. Jobs's childhood home remains a tourist attraction and is currently owned by his stepmother (Paul's second wife), Marilyn Jobs.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://patch.com/california/losaltos/steve-jobs-childhood-home-draws-tourists-stepmom-lamea2c39be94e |title=Steve Jobs' Childhood Home Draws Tourists; Stepmom Laments Resignation |date=August 25, 2011 |website=Los Altos, CA Patch |access-date=May 30, 2021 |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602213808/https://patch.com/california/losaltos/steve-jobs-childhood-home-draws-tourists-stepmom-lamea2c39be94e |url-status=live }}</ref> Jobs and Powell had two more children, daughters Erin (b. 1995) and [[Eve Jobs]] (b. 1998), who is a fashion model.{{sfn|Linzmayer|2004|p=81}} The family lived in [[Palo Alto, California]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.parsacf.org/Page/82 |title=Laurene Powell Jobs – PARSA |year=2006 |publisher=PARSA Community Foundation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914010800/http://www.parsacf.org/Page/82 |archive-date=September 14, 2010 |access-date=July 8, 2008}}</ref> Although a billionaire, Jobs made it known that, like Gates, he had stipulated that most of his monetary fortune would not be left to his children.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/business/laurene-powell-jobs-corner-office.html|title=Laurene Powell Jobs Is Putting Her Own Dent in the Universe: An interview with the 35th-richest person in the world|first=David|last=Gelles|date=February 27, 2020|access-date=May 25, 2020|archive-date=May 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200525094813/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/business/laurene-powell-jobs-corner-office.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Business Insider]]|title=Laurene Powell Jobs says she won't pass on billions to her children|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/laurene-powell-jobs-children-wont-inherit-billions-2020-2|quote=It ends with me|first=Avery|last=Hartmans|date=February 28, 2020|access-date=May 25, 2020|archive-date=June 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629182850/https://www.businessinsider.com/laurene-powell-jobs-children-wont-inherit-billions-2020-2|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Family===
[[Chrisann Brennan]] notes that after Jobs was forced out of Apple, "he apologized many times over for his behavior" towards her and Lisa. She said Jobs "said that he never took responsibility when he should have, and that he was sorry".{{sfn|Brennan|2013|p=220}} By this time, Jobs had developed a strong relationship with Lisa and when she was nine, Jobs had her name on her birth certificate changed from "Lisa Brennan" to "Lisa Brennan-Jobs".{{sfn|Brennan|2013|p=}} Jobs and Brennan developed a working relationship to [[co-parent]] Lisa, a change which Brennan credits to the influence of his newly found biological sister, [[Mona Simpson]], who worked to repair the relationship between Lisa and Jobs.{{sfn|Brennan|2013|p=}} Jobs had found Mona after first finding his birth mother, Joanne Schieble Simpson, shortly after he left Apple.{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|pp=253–255}}
Jobs did not contact his birth family during his adoptive mother Clara's lifetime, however. He
Jobs only contacted Schieble after Clara died in early 1986 and after he received permission from his father, Paul. In addition, out of respect for Paul, he asked the media not to report on his search.{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|pp=253–255}} Jobs stated that he was motivated to find his birth mother out of both curiosity and a need "to see if she was okay and to thank her, because I'm glad I didn't end up as an abortion. She was twenty-three and she went through a lot to have me."{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|p=254}} Schieble was emotional during their first meeting (though she wasn't familiar with the history of Apple or Jobs's role in it) and told him that she had been pressured into signing the adoption papers. She said that she regretted giving him up and repeatedly apologized to him for it. Jobs and Schieble
During this first visit, Schieble told Jobs that he had a sister, Mona, who was not aware that she had a brother.{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|p=254}} Schieble then arranged for them to meet in New York where Mona worked. Her first impression of Jobs was that "he was totally straightforward and lovely, just a normal and sweet guy".{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|p=255}} Simpson and Jobs then went for a long walk to get to know each other.{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|p=255}} Jobs later told his biographer that "Mona was not completely thrilled at first to have me in her life and have her mother so emotionally affectionate toward me{{nbsp}}... As we got to know each other, we became really good friends, and she is my family. I don't know what I'd do without her. I can't imagine a better sister. My adopted sister, Patty, and I were never close."{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|p=255}}
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