On: Ev Williams helped create the open web, now he’s betting against it (2016)

[thaumasiotes]

> Steve Jobs was from Silicon Valley but grew up poor.

"Poor" may be stretching things a bit.

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Compared to most Silicon Valley founders he was, his adoptive parents were blue collar with no college education. His dad made most of his money as a repo man.

Part of the agreement his biological mother made with the Jobs family to allow them to adopt was that Steve had to go to college.