20 Little-known Facts About the 'Legendary' Life of Steve Jobs

Explore 20 little-known facts about the 'legendary' life of steve jobs.

1. Steve Jobs was adopted. His biological mother wanted him to be adopted into an intellectual family. Paul and Clara Jobs, Steve's adoptive parents, never attended college, but they helped Steve get an education.

2. Steve Jobs dropped out of college after his first semester to save money for his foster parents, but he didn't officially leave school until 18 months later.

3. Unable to stay in the dorms, Steve had to sleep on the floor in his roommates' rooms, returning empty Coca-Cola cans for 5 cents to buy food. Every week, he walked more than 10 km across the city to the charity kitchen at the Hare Krishna temple.

4. Steve's initial aspiration was to become a Buddhist monk. After traveling to India with a close friend, he returned with a shaved head and became a Buddhist.

5. He previously worked with Steve Wozniak for the Atari gaming system before joining Apple Computer. Both were paid $5,000, and Job gave Wozniak $375.

6. Besides Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple Computers Inc. had a third co-founder, Ronald Wayne. However, after two weeks, Ronald left Apple and was paid $800 for his shares. The current value of those shares is $22 billion.

7. Steve was the one who brought John Sculley from Pepsi-Cola to become CEO of Apple in 2003. And it was also John Sculley who fired Jobs two years later. Steven later commented on this event as follows: "The burden of success was replaced by the light of a new beginning, though nothing is certain. I am free to enter the most creative period of my life."

8. Jobs and Wozniak named the company Apple because they were both huge fans of the Beatles. The band owned a record label called Apple Records.

9. Steve Jobs had four children. One of them was an illegitimate child whom he initially did not acknowledge. However, Steve later acknowledged her and maintained a good relationship with her, even naming an Apple computer after her.

10. Steve is not a vegetarian, but he also doesn't eat any meat other than seafood.

11. Steve's Disney stock was worth more than his Apple stock, because he sold a lot of his Apple shares in the 1990s and owned less than 1% at the time of his death.

12. Steve owned over 300 patents.

13. Steve bought Pixar for $5 million. At that time, it was just a small film studio. The release of Toy Story ushered in a new era for Pixar.

14. When he was younger, Steve dated John Baez, a famous American folk singer.

15. There are rumors that the name iPhone 4S means iPhone 4 Steve.

16. When Wozniak was considered employee number 1 and Jobs number 2, he was very upset and strongly objected until he regained his top position.

17. Steve has dyslexia.

18. Steve was obsessed with fonts and calligraphy. The reason Apple has so many different fonts is because he once took a calligraphy class in college.

19. Steve first saw a computer when he was 12 years old.

20. He owns over 100 pairs of Levi's jeans.