Top 10 Unbelievable Facts about Steve Jobs

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Top 10 Unbelievable Facts about Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was born on the 24^th of February, 1955 in San Francisco United States, to two young college students, Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble, who met at the University of Wisconsin. They later realized they were young to marry. Having a child, they surrendered it to Paul and Clara for adoption.

He was a family man married to Laurene Powell Jobs. Together, they had four children.

His educational background is that he attended schools like; Cupertino Junior High School, Monta Loma Elementary, De Anza College, Homestead High School, and Reed College.

Jobs lived the least expected kind of life of a rich person as he ate fish and not meat. He liked to walk barefoot. He was claimed to be unhygienic for that and was allocated a night shift job when he worked at Atari’s company.

He appeared on the Forbes list of the richest people in the nation at the age of 25 years.

Steve Wozniak was ripped off  by  Steve Jobs giving him a share of 350 dollars instead of 2500 dollars. He was fired from Apple Company after a complaint came up that he was very young.

Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he choose to receive medication from a medicine man other than a biological qualified doctor.

Unfortunately, he died on the 5^th of October, 2011 in Palo Alto with his family by his side.

The following are some of the unbelievable facts about Steve Jobs.

1. Steve was once fired from Apple company

Pepsi Executive John Sculley told the board that Jobs was far too young which led to Jobs being fired.

This was not so long after Jobs recruited him. Steve Jobs began another project, NeXT, which had limited sales due to its high prices. His ticket back to the company was after Apple purchased NeXT stock.

There is verification of the rumors that the NeXT hardware combined with apple resulted in a system like the iOS used for iPhones.

2. Steve was adopted

Job’s biological parents, Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble met at the University of Wisconsin.

Jandali grew up in Syria while Joanne was American. They were both very young and at the age of 23, they agreed to the fact that they are young to marry.

Having brought a child to life out of wedlock, they surrendered it to Paul and Clara, the adoptive parents, who raised the child (Steve Jobs) on the promise to go to college.

3. The home Town of Apple

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When he was in the sixth grade, he was bullied for being allegedly odd from the rest of the learners at Crittenden Middle School.

He gave his parents a choice between relocating and him dropping out of school. They moved from San Francisco to Los Altos in California.

This is the birthplace of apple. He meet engineer Bill Fernandez who introduced him to Steve Wozniak. However, the two, Jobs and Wozniak, had met in high school when Jobs was 13 years old and Wozniak was 18 years old.

4. Steve was a Zen Buddhist

After Steve Jobs had worked with Amari, a video game and electronics company, he took a 7-month tour visiting India in search of spiritual enlightenment.

He often meditated and was also a known pescatarian, who ate fish and not meat. With all his wealth, he liked to walk barefoot which brought changes to his work shift in Atari’s from day time shift to night shift.

5. Steve was a college dropout but urged that is how he came up with Mac computer multiple typefaces

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After graduating from Homestead high school in Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs joined Reed College in Oregon. Here he attended several classes like calligraphy but dropped out after some time for he did not want to spend his parent’s money.

In his commencement speech for Stanford University in 2005, he justified some advantages of his action saying that if he did not drop out, the Mac computer would not have had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.

6. Jobs ripped off Steve Wozniak

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In one of his works for Atari, he had to make a circuit board for the video game Breakout. He promised Wozniak to offer him 50% of the profit to be made if they could use fewer ‘TTL’ chips.

Later, after making a 5000 dollars profit, Jobs reported to Steve Wozniak that he made 700 dollars thus his share was 350 dollars. This was 2150 dollars less and the half split was to be 2500 dollars each.

7. Jobs was on the Forbes list of the nation’s richest people at 25

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Steve Jobs was worth over 1 million dollars when he was 23 years old. This appreciated 250 million dollars by the time he was 25 years old. 

This made him one of the youngest people to ever appear on the Forbes list of the richest people in the country. This was commonly achieved through the inheritance of wealth but Jobs had no inheritance.

8. Jobs came from a humble background

When he was in college, he was attending classes unofficially due to a lack of enough funds to pay the fee on time. He slept on his friends’ dorm room floors and returned coke bottles to retailers for money.

The daily survived in terms of food was from Hare Krishna temple free meal which was a local temple. Usually, his school grades were as low as GPA of about 2.65. He admitted that he never enjoyed school structure and preferred to learn in unconventional ways.

9. Steve denied his child but used her name to name a computer.

Jobs had a child with Chrisann Brennan who was his school girlfriend. They brought to life a daughter they named Lisa but later on, Jobs denied being the biological father.

Even after carrying out a DNA test that confirmed him as the father, he still denied it. However, he named his computer Apple Lisa after the child.

10. Jobs grave is unmarked

Jobs was suffering from pancreatic cancer. He resisted medicine and tried alternative healing such as becoming vegan, herbal remedies, and acupuncture, he died at his home in Palo Alto with his family at his side.

His grave was not marked and is still unmarked.

The above facts about Steve Jobs are unbelievable for he lived the least expected kind of life for a rich person. He converted his problems into his favors and came up with a justification. He appeared on the Forbes list at 25 years of age.

He also denied his biological daughter even after a DNA test but later used her name to name a computer.

When he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he hired a medicine man in place of a qualified biological doctor. He ripped off his senior partner, Steve Wozniak.