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Steve Jobs died twelve years ago, but it is impossible to forget his incredible genius. Without you, Steve, it's more difficult to stay hungry, stay Foolish. On October 5, 2011, Apple announced that co-founder Steve Jobs had died. He was 56 years old at the time. We all know who Steve Jobs is. The genius who revolutionized modern technology and the mastermind who emphasized style as much as function in our everyday digital devices.
However, there are a few facts about Steve Jobs
that perhaps you don't know that would shock you. Let's learn a bit more about
the real Steve Jobs with these 20 facts (slightly abridged), published by INC.
1. Steve Jobs was adopted shortly after being
born.
2. Jobs was, biologically, half Arab. His
biological father was Syrian and his mother was American.
3. Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak met
in high school – Wozniak was 18 and Jobs was just 13.
4. Jobs was a pescetarian, meaning he ate no
meat except for fish.
5. He was an official college dropout, but
continued his education by informally auditing classes.
6. One class Jobs audited was a calligraphy
course, which he says was instrumental in the future Apple products' attention
to typography and font.
7. There was actually a third founder of Apple
– Ronald Wayne, who even designed Apple's first logo. Wayne sold his 10 percent
stake just two weeks after partnering with Jobs and Wozniak for only $800.
8. Jobs was pushed out of his own company in
1985. Despite the fallout, he later recognized the coup as a blessing in
disguise, as it gave him a chance to experiment creatively and purchase an
animation studio, which would later be known as Pixar. Eventually he rejoined
Apple as CEO in 1997 (and revitalized the failing company).
9. While at Apple, Jobs always kept his annual
salary at $1. Don't worry, with 5.5 million shares of Apple stock and as the
majority shareholder of Disney stock (from selling Pixar), he wasn't quite what
you'd call a starving artist.
10. Jobs had an entire team devoted to
packaging who studied the experience of opening a box to learn how to achieve
the excitement and emotional response that is now common with Apple products.
11. Jobs is listed as either primary inventor
or co-inventor for 346 United States patents related to a range of
technologies, with most of the patents being for design.
12. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak notes that
Jobs never learned how to code.
13. Jobs harbored an intense dislike for PCs,
and is quoted as saying to one friend, "I'd rather sell dog shit than
PCs."
14. He never put license plates on his silver
Mercedes (despite driving it constantly). How did he do it? California has a
rule that a car owner has six months to put plates on a new car. Jobs just
changed cars (to the identical model) every six months, allowing him to drive
without plates.
15. Jobs actually served as a mentor for Google
founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, even sharing some of his advisers with the
Google duo.
16. Jobs was furious when Google created its
Android devices, entering as an Apple competitor in the phone market.
17. Jobs was found to have pancreatic cancer in
2003, but rather than taking the doctor-recommended path of immediate
operation, Jobs subscribed to an alternative-medicine regimen, including a
vegan diet, acupuncture, and herbal remedies, even consulting a psychic. After
nine months, Jobs gave in and underwent surgery. Many consider the delay a
major factor in his eventual decline.
18. Apple, Microsoft, and Disney properties
(including Disneyland and Disney World) flew their flags at half-staff when
Jobs died.
19. Tim Cook revealed in a 2014 interview that
Jobs's main office and nameplate are still as they were in 2011, when Jobs
passed away.20. Sunday, October 16, 2011, was declared
Steve Jobs Day by the governor of California, Jerry Brown.
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