Steve was adopted by
Paul and Clara Jobs. Although Steve’s biological mom wanted her son to be
adopted by college graduates and Paul and Clara were not. They promised
Steve would go to college when he grew up.
Steve dropped out of
college after one semester to save his parent’s money. He did drop-in
though for 18 months.
While dropping in on
classes, he slept on the floors of his friends’ places,turned in coke
bottles for 5 cents to use the money to eat with, and hiked 7 miles across
town once a week to get a decent meal at the Hare Krishna temple in town.
Steve’s original
aspiration was to become a Buddhist Monk. After traveling to Indiawith
one of his best friends from Reed College. Upon his return with shaved
head, he became a Buddhist. Source-[google.com]
He worked with
Steve Wozniak for Atari game systems before Apple Computers.
They reportedly were paid $5,000 for their work of which he shared $375
with Wozniak.
We all probably know that
Steve Jobs began Apple Computers, Inc., in 1976 with Steve Wozniak in his
parents’ garage. But there was a third member, Ronald Wayne. After
two weeks Ronald left for a onetime payment of $800 for his share of Apple
stock. Reportedly this stock would be worth $22 billion today.
Steve lured John Sculley from
Pepsi-Cola to become Apple’s CEO in 2003. Coincidentally it was John
Sculley who then fired Jobs in 2005. Steven would later comment on it
saying “the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of
being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter
one of the most creative periods of my life.”
Jobs and Wozniak named
the company Apple because they were huge Beatles fans.
He had four children, one
out of wedlock that he at first denounced, but later claimed and went on
to have a great relationship with and even named a computer after her.
Steve was actually a
pescetarian not a vegan.
Jobs stock in Disney
had more value than in Apple, since Steve sold a lot of shares in the
90’s and owned less than 1% at the time of his death.
Steve had over 300
patents.
Jobs bought Pixar for 5
million and transformed it with their first movie Toy Story. Jobs was
credited as an executive producer on the film Toy Story.
He dated John Baez when
he was younger.
It is rumored that the name
of the new iPhone4s means iPhone 4 Steve.
He was upset that
Wozniak was employee number 1 and that he was employee number 2. He
protested until he became employee number 0.
He was dyslexic.
He was obsessed with
type fonts and calligraphy. Claims that the reason why Apple had different
fonts was probably because he dropped into a calligraphy class in college.
He saw his first
computer at age 12.
He owned over 100 pairs
of Levi jeans.
His all time best friend was Steve Wozniak.
Steve Jobs And Wozniak make a good team. It is because Wozniak knew who to invent very well and Jobs knew how to sell the product well.
Steve was rather an arrogant type
He once had a 14 bedroom house.
Steve's real father was working in a restaurant in which Steve often went! But they both pretended they never knew each other!
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