Inc.
-Steve Jobs was born to Abdulfattah John Jandali and Joanne Schieble (later
Simpson). He was a Syrian origin by birth who was adopted by Paul Jobs and
Clara Jobs.
-Steve’s biological sister, Mona Simpson, is the famous author who penned,
“Anywhere But Here” — a novel about Simpson’s relationship with her folks.
He had learnt a lot about his biological parents through his sister. He had
never got a chance to meet his biological sister until the age of 27.
-Steve never wanted to meet his biological father, though his father yearned
to meet his genius son.
-Steve was a Zen Buddhist and once thought about joining a monastery.
-Steve was a college dropout.
-He was a millionaire at the age of 25.
-He was offered an internship with Hewlett-Packard in his eight grade, As an
eight grader he called William Hewlett co-founder of HP to inquire about a
missing part from a frequency counter he was assembling. Hewlett reportedly
offered him a bag of parts and a summer internship.
-Steve Jobs first worked in an Apple Farm. When he decided to start his
business, he joked with his friends that if they did not suggest a name for
his company he will name it as ‘Apple Computers’. Obviously his friends
could not come out with a name and hence Steve named it as ‘Apple
Computers’.
-The apple logo bite/byte has a fitting reference for a tech company
-After Jobs and Wozniak founded the company with Ronald Wayne, the initial
Board of Directors decreed that every employee need to be issued a name
badge and an employee number based on their date of hire. Wozniak got
number one and Jobs was left with two. This made Steve unhappy. He made so
much of stink that the number two badge retired and was issued a new badge
with number zero.
-Steve was known for his aggressive personality and erratic management
style.
-Fortune magazine once wrote that Jobs was “considered one of Silicon
Valley’s leading egomaniacs.”
-Jobs was fired from his own company in an internal power struggle.
-He eventually stepped back as the interim CEO and served as the CEO till
August 2011.
-When Jobs resumed control as Apple’s CEO in 1997, he stopped all of its
philanthropic programs, saying, “Wait until we are profitable.”
-Even after rising to the top to become a $40-billion company, Apple still
doesn’t donate to charity.
-As the CEO of Apple, Steve earned $1 a year, 50 cents for attending the
meetings and 50 cents for his performance.
-On August 24th, 2011 Steve Jobs resigned his position as Chief Executive
Officer of Apple before his long battle with pancreatic cancer took his
life on October 5th 2011
-Jobs stake in Disney was twice as big as his stake in Apple
-He was the 110th richest person in the world when he died
-Today, Apple is the largest technology firm in the world, with annual
revenues of more than $60 billion
Post a Comment