Steve Jobs and Bill Gates became two of the most influential, intuitive, and determined inventors of modern technology. Both men expressed an early love in the rapidly growing field of technology, mostly spending most of their focus on computers. Although the stories of their lives differ greatly, they share many things in common that soon paralleled them into establishing modern technology.
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Schieble, a speech therapist, and Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian political science professor. His biological parents later placed him for adoption, where he was soon found by Clara and Paul Jobs, who were an accountant, and a machinist and veteran of the Coast Guard, respectively. His biological parents …show more content…
Interestingly, both companies were spawned by the duos that became partners in their high school experience. When Jobs graduated from high school, he enrolled in a college, that he later dropped out of six months later but frequented a creative class for eighteen months. With this creativity in hand, he became a video game designer for Atari. After leaving Atari, he and Wozniak started Apple Computer in 1976. When Gates graduated high school, he enrolled in Harvard University, wanting to pursue a career in law; however, his love of computer technology drew him more into the computer lab than attending his classes. Continuing to stay in contact with Allen, Allen presented the Altair 8800 mini-computer kit to Gates, which he became fascinated with. The duo contacted MITS, who made the kit, claiming they had software that would work for it. Although they had no software written, they spent the next few months writing the software. When tested, the software worked perfectly. MITS hired Allen and Gates left Harvard. In 1975, one year before the creation of Apple Computer, Bill Gates and Paul Allen coined Microsoft (formerly known as Micro-Soft) a cross of “micro-computer” and …show more content…
After Apple revealed the Macintosh, in hopes of bettering the company, issues arose that made Apple executives to question Jobs position at Apple. Over time, Apple executives began to phase him out of the company. Jobs founded NeXT, Inc., a software and hardware company. Jobs later returned to Apple when NeXT Inc. was bought by Apple for $429 million; he reprised his role as CEO of Apple. On Microsoft’s end, Paul Allen became a victim of Hodgkin’s disease. Although the cancer went into remission, he decided to leave Microsoft off that other opportunities are out there for him to
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Schieble, a speech therapist, and Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian political science professor. His biological parents later placed him for adoption, where he was soon found by Clara and Paul Jobs, who were an accountant, and a machinist and veteran of the Coast Guard, respectively. His biological parents …show more content…
Interestingly, both companies were spawned by the duos that became partners in their high school experience. When Jobs graduated from high school, he enrolled in a college, that he later dropped out of six months later but frequented a creative class for eighteen months. With this creativity in hand, he became a video game designer for Atari. After leaving Atari, he and Wozniak started Apple Computer in 1976. When Gates graduated high school, he enrolled in Harvard University, wanting to pursue a career in law; however, his love of computer technology drew him more into the computer lab than attending his classes. Continuing to stay in contact with Allen, Allen presented the Altair 8800 mini-computer kit to Gates, which he became fascinated with. The duo contacted MITS, who made the kit, claiming they had software that would work for it. Although they had no software written, they spent the next few months writing the software. When tested, the software worked perfectly. MITS hired Allen and Gates left Harvard. In 1975, one year before the creation of Apple Computer, Bill Gates and Paul Allen coined Microsoft (formerly known as Micro-Soft) a cross of “micro-computer” and …show more content…
After Apple revealed the Macintosh, in hopes of bettering the company, issues arose that made Apple executives to question Jobs position at Apple. Over time, Apple executives began to phase him out of the company. Jobs founded NeXT, Inc., a software and hardware company. Jobs later returned to Apple when NeXT Inc. was bought by Apple for $429 million; he reprised his role as CEO of Apple. On Microsoft’s end, Paul Allen became a victim of Hodgkin’s disease. Although the cancer went into remission, he decided to leave Microsoft off that other opportunities are out there for him to