11 Most Amazing Facts About Steve Jobs:
1. Timeline:
In 1973, Steve dropped out of college following to which he joined ATARI. In the same year he went to India to look for enlightenment. Later in 1976, before Microsoft, he had formed Apple. After 9 years of esteem hard work he left Apple in 1985 only to found another venture called NeXt. Very next year Steve bought an animation studio firm called PIXAR. He came back to Apple in 1996 and in 2006 he finally sold Pixer.
2. Dyslexia Patient:
Steve jobs is a Dyslexic. He can’t read, write and understand the characters. Despite of such complications, he has managed to build a second most valuable technology company. Interestingly, few other well known personalities like Graham Bell, Albert Einstein and Henry Ford were also suffering some the same “intelligent personality” disease.
3. A Troublemaker:
In early days of learning, Steve Jobs remained as a terror to his class mates. He spend 3rd grade as a self claimed “little terror” that used to leave snakes in classrooms and exploded bombs.
4. Steve Jobs: Employee No “0″ (Zero):
In my professional carrier, I never saw any one holding an identity as “0” before I found out Steve Jobs fact. In Apple he holds an employee ID as 0. In early days of formation Apple’s board of directors wanted to tag all the employees with employee ID in an order they were hired. Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder got employee No 1 and Jobs was assigned 2. Jobs continued to protest against this until he received 0 because it comes before 1.
5. Calligraphy Lover:
After dropping out of his classes at Reed, he sat in on a calligraphy class and got fascinated with fonts and penmanship. He attributes the original Apple true type font face (which was later copied by Windows).
6. Steve: A Dirty Fellow:
Have you ever heard about an employee who got reshuffled for night shits just because of his dressing sense and poor hygiene habits? Yes, it was Steve Jobs , if no one else. He used to smell terrible which had forced the Atari management to send him for night shifts.
7. He was Homeless:
“I didn’t have a dorm room,” he said in a commencement address given at Stanford in 2005, “so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple."
8. Daily Uniform:
Try to Google about Steve’s photograph. Most often, you will find him only in black St. Croix cashmere/silk high neck T-shirt, Levis blue jeans and New Balance sneakers. He owns more than 100 jeans of same make, size and color.
9. Salary: 1 Dollar per year:
Steve Jobs withdraws just 1 Dollar as his annual salary from Apple’s account as CEO. However he earns more than $48 million per year from Disney shares.
10. President Of PepsiCo To Work for Apple:
Steve jobs has aways been known as a good negotiator. He convinced John Sculley – President of PepsiCo – to quit his job and join Apple as as CEO by saying “Do you want to sell sugared water for whole of your life or do you want to change the world ?”
11. A Strict Fruitarian:
The logic behind forming his company with a name “Apple’ is a strong vegetarian habits of Steve Jobs and Apple being his favorite fruit. He and his wife both are strict vegans, no matter what happens.
1. Timeline:
In 1973, Steve dropped out of college following to which he joined ATARI. In the same year he went to India to look for enlightenment. Later in 1976, before Microsoft, he had formed Apple. After 9 years of esteem hard work he left Apple in 1985 only to found another venture called NeXt. Very next year Steve bought an animation studio firm called PIXAR. He came back to Apple in 1996 and in 2006 he finally sold Pixer.
2. Dyslexia Patient:
Steve jobs is a Dyslexic. He can’t read, write and understand the characters. Despite of such complications, he has managed to build a second most valuable technology company. Interestingly, few other well known personalities like Graham Bell, Albert Einstein and Henry Ford were also suffering some the same “intelligent personality” disease.
3. A Troublemaker:
In early days of learning, Steve Jobs remained as a terror to his class mates. He spend 3rd grade as a self claimed “little terror” that used to leave snakes in classrooms and exploded bombs.
4. Steve Jobs: Employee No “0″ (Zero):
In my professional carrier, I never saw any one holding an identity as “0” before I found out Steve Jobs fact. In Apple he holds an employee ID as 0. In early days of formation Apple’s board of directors wanted to tag all the employees with employee ID in an order they were hired. Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder got employee No 1 and Jobs was assigned 2. Jobs continued to protest against this until he received 0 because it comes before 1.
5. Calligraphy Lover:
After dropping out of his classes at Reed, he sat in on a calligraphy class and got fascinated with fonts and penmanship. He attributes the original Apple true type font face (which was later copied by Windows).
6. Steve: A Dirty Fellow:
Have you ever heard about an employee who got reshuffled for night shits just because of his dressing sense and poor hygiene habits? Yes, it was Steve Jobs , if no one else. He used to smell terrible which had forced the Atari management to send him for night shifts.
7. He was Homeless:
“I didn’t have a dorm room,” he said in a commencement address given at Stanford in 2005, “so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple."
8. Daily Uniform:
Try to Google about Steve’s photograph. Most often, you will find him only in black St. Croix cashmere/silk high neck T-shirt, Levis blue jeans and New Balance sneakers. He owns more than 100 jeans of same make, size and color.
9. Salary: 1 Dollar per year:
Steve Jobs withdraws just 1 Dollar as his annual salary from Apple’s account as CEO. However he earns more than $48 million per year from Disney shares.
10. President Of PepsiCo To Work for Apple:
Steve jobs has aways been known as a good negotiator. He convinced John Sculley – President of PepsiCo – to quit his job and join Apple as as CEO by saying “Do you want to sell sugared water for whole of your life or do you want to change the world ?”
11. A Strict Fruitarian:
The logic behind forming his company with a name “Apple’ is a strong vegetarian habits of Steve Jobs and Apple being his favorite fruit. He and his wife both are strict vegans, no matter what happens.
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