Steve Jobs: Facts & Inspirations

• “… Every thing around you which they call life… was built by people who are no smarter than you and you CAN change it…”
• Steve Jobs was born to Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian, and a Political Science Professor and student Joanne Carole Schieble in San Francisco, California. He was later adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs and raised in Cupertino in California.
• The predecessor to the now famous Macintosh was the $10,000 Apple Lisa. It was named after Jobs’ daughter, Lisa Nicole Brennan-Jobs.
• After splitting up with Chris-Ann Brennan, Jobs claiming he was sterile, refused to pay child support for his first daughter Lisa. After failing a paternity test which confirmed Jobs was indeed the father, a court order forced Jobs to pay child support
• Mona Simpson, the author of several books, is Jobs’ biological sister!
• At 30, Jobs was fired by John Sculley whom he had hired to run Apple.
• Jobs went on to found NeXT computers which never tasted success but its technology lives on in the current Macs after Apple bought NeXT and integrated NeXTStep into Mac OS.
• It is Apple policy not to have dedicated parking spots for employees including for its CEO. So Jobs parks in the nearest available spot, which is usually the handicapped spot. He also drives an unmarked Mercedes Benz. Cheaper to pay the fine than to waste time getting a license plate!
• Jobs’ annual salary is $1, just enough to keep company health benefits.
• At Apple’s first Halloween party, Jobs dressed up as Jesus Christ.
• Steve Jobs is a buddhist who had travelled to India prior to founding Apple for spiritual enlightenment and came back a Buddhist. photo
• He also had this to say about Bill Gates: “He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger”.
• When Disney bought Jobs’ other company Pixar, he also became the single largest individual shareholder of Disney. Apple isn’t his only gig you know! photo
• Steve Jobs is credited of single-handedly saving Apple, bringing a revolution in online music, creating a world-beating smartphone and leading Pixar to dominate computer animation.
• With iPad launch in 2010, the tech czar once again rewrote computing history.