#5 Steve Jobs — Founder of Apple

It is hard to make a list of tech icons who faced circumstances that society deemed “disadvantageous” and made it big without mentioning Steve Jobs. 

Jobs' birth parents met at the University of Wisconsin, where Jobs' Syrian-born biological father, Abdulfattah Jandali was a student, and later taught, and where his biological mother, Swiss-American Catholic Joanne Carole Schieble, was also a student. They were of same age because Jandali had received his PhD at an early age. Jandali, who was teaching in Wisconsin when Jobs was born, said he had no choice but to put the baby up for adoption because his girlfriend's family objected to their relationship.

He was given up for adoption to Paul and Clara Jobs, under the condition that they would send him to college.

Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Reed was an expensive college which Paul and Clara could ill afford. They were spending much of their life savings on their son's higher education. Jobs dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes, including a course on calligraphy.

Later he along with his childhood friend Steve Wozniak founded Apple on April 1, 1976.

 “You can’t connect the dot looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards,” Jobs said in his Stanford commencement address in 2005. “So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

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