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Founder Profiles

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Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955.1 The circumstances of his arrival were tangled enough to belong in a novel. His biological parents — Joanne Carole Schieble, a Catholic woman of Swiss and German descent from rural Wisconsin, and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, a Syrian-born doctoral candidate who served as her teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin — were the same age, both twenty-three, and desperately in love.2 Walter Isaacson, Jobs' official biographer, states that Schieble's father "threatened to cut Joanne off completely" if she continued the…

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