Born in the spring of 1955, Steve Jobs grew up in the area that would eventually become known as Silicon Valley. He was raised by adoptive parents Paul and Clara in comfortable circumstances. In high school he met his girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan, and their relationship would last for several years. A college dropout, he tried his hand at various different potential career paths before settling on a video game design role with Atari in 1974. It was thanks to this job that he acquired sufficient personal savings to fund a soul-searching trip to India, where he first encountered Buddhism, which was to become his lifelong faith.