Early+experiences+of+the+individual

Early Experiences:

Steve Jobs' biological parents were unwed graduate students who gave him up for adoption due to a strange constellation of events. His biological grandfather refused to let his daughter marry an Arab & pushed her distance herself from the biological father. Because of this familial pressure, she moved to San Francisco without telling him, had Steve while there & gave him up for adoption without his knowledge. After her father died several months later, Steve's birth mother married his biological father but it was too late to undo the adoption. Soon after, they gave birth to Steve's sister, lauded author, Mona Simpson.

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 * In this video, Steve relates an event from his childhood that permanently re-colored his outlook

Clara worked as an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist. The family lived in Mountain View within California's Silicon Valley. As a boy, Jobs and his father would work on electronics in the family garage. Paul would show his son how to take apart and reconstruct electronics, a hobby which instilled confidence, tenacity, and mechanical prowess in young Jobs.

http://www.biography.com/people/steve-jobs-9354805