Just months after Jobs’ birth, his biological parents Abdulfattah “John” Jandali and Schieble gave him up for adoption, and got married nine months later. But four years after the birth of a girl, who became the writer Mona Simpson, Jandali abandoned his wife. Jandali and Jobs shared an unwanted similarity here. Jobs himself was estranged from a child he fathered early in his life.

On May 17, 1978, when Jobs was 23, his­­ high school girlfriend Brennan gave birth to a daughter, Lisa. Like his biological father Jandali, Jobs too struggled with his responsibilities and denied he was her father for two years. He even swore in court documents that he could not be Lisa’s father because he was “sterile and infertile, and as a result thereof, did not have the physical capacity to procreate a child.”