STEVE JOBS FACTS
Did you know Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
were high school friends?
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10 interesting fact about steve jobs you might
be interested.
1.
He and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple
met in high-school.
He and the co-founder of Apple met in high-school
for the first time.
He was 13 when he met Steve who was 18 at
the time
2.
He was biologically Half-Arab.
His biological father was of Syrian descent
and his mother was American.
3.
He had an illegitimate child named Lisa Brennan.
He became a father when he was 23 but he denied
the child’s paternity for years.
Eventually he did accept Lisa as his legitimate
child and she changed her name to Lisa Brennan-Jobs.
4.
He was adopted shortly after being born.
He was given up for adoption by his biological
mother, Joanne Schieble shortly after his
birth because her parents didn’t approve
of her relation with his father Abdul Fattah
Jandali because he was a Muslim.
5.
He was once fired from Apple.
He was pushed away from his own company in
1985 but despite that he took it positively
and took the opportunity to use his creativity
and carry out experiments.
He even bought an animation studio, which
would later be known as Pixar.
He eventually rejoined Apple as CEO in 1997.
6.
He always kept his annual salary at $1 while
he was at Apple.
While working for Apple he used to keep his
annual salary at only $1.
But then again he did have 5.5 million shares
of Apple stock and was also a major shareholder
of Disney stock.
7.
He met his biological sister, Mona Simpson
at the age of 27.
He ended up meeting his biological sister,
Mona Simpson, who was a famous author at the
age of 27.
8.
He never learned how to code.
According to the Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak,
Steve Jobs never really learned coding.
9.
When he was a child he wanted to become a
Buddhist Monk.
When Steve Jobs was an adolescent he deeply
wanted to become a monk so that he could attain
spiritual enlightenment.
10.He was the largest shareholder in the Walt
Disney Company
When he was fired from Apple he went ahead
and bought an animation studio.
It was later named Pixar after he sold it
to Disney which resulted in him becoming Disney’s
largest shareholder.
