Little is known about Steve Jobs' 'extraordinary' life
Steve Jobs has become a legend in the world of technology. His life has experienced many ups and downs with many events that now this mysterious curtain is gradually revealed.
On the occasion of the launch of the movie "Jobs" , invite readers to learn more about the facts that few people know about this legend, compiled by dashal.com .
1. Steve Jobs is adopted. His real mother wanted his son to be adopted in an intellectual family. Paul and Clara Jobs - Steve's adoptive parents never attended college but they helped Steve go to college.
2. Steve Jobs dropped out of college after the first period because he wanted to save money for adoptive parents, but the next 18 months he officially left school.
3. Don't stay in the dorm, Steve has to sleep on the floor of your room, pay Coca cans to get 5 cents to buy food. Every week, he walked more than 10 km along the city to the charity kitchen at Hare Krishna Temple.
4. Steve's original wish is to become a Buddhist monk. After coming to India with a close friend, he returned to his bald head and became a Buddhist.
5. He used to work with Steve Wozniak to work for Atari game system before joining Apple Computer. Both were paid $ 5,000 and Job split for Wozniak 375 USD.
6. Co-founder of Apple Computers Inc. besides Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak there is also a third member, Ronald Wayne. However, after two weeks, Ronald left Apple and was paid $ 800 for his shares. The value of these shares is currently up to 22 billion USD.
7. Steve is the one who brought John Sculley from Pepsi-Cola to CEO of Apple in 2003. And it was John Sculley who fired Jobs 2 years later. Steven then commented on the event as follows: "The burden of success has been replaced by the light of new beginnings though nothing is certain.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 extremely passionate about the Beatles. This band owns a recording label, Apple Records.
9. Steve Jobs has four children. One of them was an illegitimate child that he did not recognize at first. However, Steve later acknowledged and maintained a good relationship with this son and even took her name for an Apple computer.
10. Steve is not vegetarian, but he does not eat any meat other than seafood.
11. Steve's stock at Disney is more valuable at Apple, because he sold a lot of his Apple stock in the 90s and owned less than 1% at the time of his death.
12. Steve owns more than 300 patents.
13. Steve bought Pixar for $ 5 million. At that time, this was just a small studio. The birth of Toy Story has opened a new era for Pixar.
14. As a young man, 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 the number 1 employee and Jobs was the number 2 employee, he was very sad and determined to protest until he returned to the top position.
17. Steve is dyslexic.
18. Steve is obsessed with calligraphy and calligraphy. The reason Apple has many different fonts is because he used to attend a calligraphy class at the University.
19. The first time Steve sees a computer is when he was 12 years old.
20. He owns more than 100 Levi jeans.
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