at school. ��My father��s father was an alcoholic and whipped him with a belt, but I��m not sure if I ever got spanked.�� Both of his parents, he added, <br />performance to price allowed two generations of young entrepreneurs, including Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, to create cost projections for their <br />important technology for the region��s growth was, of course, the semiconductor. William Shockley, who had been one of the inventors of the transistor <br />out the detailing of the design to his son: the lines, the vents, the chrome, the trim of the seats. After work each day, he would change into his <br />Across the street from the Jobs family lived a man who had become successful as a real estate agent. ��He wasn��t that bright,�� Jobs recalled, ��but he <br />he was adopted. ��My college fund came from my dad