You may know Steve Jobs as the person who invented the iPod or iPad. What you may not know about him are all of his successes and the risks he had to take to become the person he was. Steve Jobs wasn't just a person who invented things, he was an innovator who encouraged people to try new things. Steve Jobs had an impact on my life and this essay will explain why Steve Jobs should be recognized as a person of high intellectual caliber who gave hope to people in the world. Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in the city of San Francisco. His biological parents gave him up for adoption. During Steve Jobs' youth he was not very interested in his education, it was until he entered high school that he met Stephen Wozniak with whom he worked on several projects and played pranks at school. With his adoptive father, Jobs spent years building things from scratch. He developed a passion for creating things. Jobs wanted to create something that would revolutionize the world. After high school, Steve Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. About 6 months later, Jobs dropped out of college to pursue a career and take creative courses. He had a purpose in mind for everything he wanted to do. In the following years, Jobs together with Wozniak founded Apple Computers. They developed a smaller computer that was portable and available to everyday consumers. In 1980 Apple Computers became a publicly traded company. However, after several years, IBM overtook Apple Computers and Jobs was said to be bad for the company, so he left. Jobs decided to merge with Pixar to have the money to buy back Apple and reinvent the entire purpose of the company. After Steve Jobs managed to do this, he created the iMac, which was... middle of paper... what he wanted, but let the world know that hope still exists. Even though Steve Jobs died in 2011, I really hope that one day someone comes into the world and does the same thing he did for the world. Take an idea, don't give up on it and make it happen. I think Steve Jobs would have wanted everyone to follow his legacy and promote what he left in the world: hope. If I could, I would really like to be a person like him, stay true to what I believe in and leave a legacy in this world. I believe anyone in this world could do it, like he did. Even though Steve Jobs is no longer here with us, he would have wanted people to know that a single idea is what can completely revolutionize the world and that without risks it is not possible to change the world for the good. But, as Steve Jobs said, “things don't have to change the world to be important.”