His birth mother was single and in the 50’s. Young women who gave birth “out of wedlock” were shamed into giving their babies up for adoption. Paul and Clara Jobs adopted Steve soon after his birth and raised him in California’s “silicon valley”. He teamed up with his high school friend Steve Wozniak. Jobs sold the computers they assembled in his garage, eventually revolutionizing the computer industry and making Jobs a multimillionaire before he was 30.