Biography
10 Unpopular Truths About Apple Co-Founder, Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs is the biggest brain behind Apple Inc, as well as its co-founder. He’s that man who appears in one style of dressing every time. But do you know the truth behind that?
There are many other things as well that you may not know about this tech-god. Keep reading to get all the juicy details about this man.
1. Adoption
Steven Paul Jobs is an adopted child of Clara and Paul Jobs. His biological parents’ names are Jandali Abdulfattah, a Syrian immigrant, and Joanne Schieble, an American.
Turns out that being an adopted child was a blessing in disguise for Steve. Because in the end, his wonderful design idea for Apple came from the experiences he had from his dad’s occupation. Paul Jobs rebuilt cars for a living.
2. Steve Jobs’s Regular Cloth Uniform
Steve always wears one style of dress and it looks weird to people. He’s always seen in a black turtleneck with jeans and sneakers.
The co-founder had made it for the employees in the company but they refused to adopt wearing a uniform. So he bought many. He owns like 100 of them and just keeps rocking them.
3. An illegitimate child?
Despite denying naming Apple Lisa after his illegal child. And denying her paternity for many years as well, claiming the Lisa in the computer’s name stands for Local Integrated Systems Architecture.
Steve Jobs admitted his wrongs one day, he admitted he was the father of Lisa, his illegal child. And that he named the Apple computer after her.
4. Technological Savvy
It’s surprising to know that the man on the fortune’s list of American bosses isn’t all into technology. His long-time friend and Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, revealed this.
He was more productive in the business and design aspects. Other interesting truths about this billionaire are;
5. He dropped out of school because he had dyslexic.
6. Steve doesn’t like making public speeches. Walter Isaacson was the only person permitted to write his biography.
7. He had a Junior sister, Mona Simpson, which he didn’t meet until they were in their 20s. Turns out they had so much in common.
8. The co-founder of Apple never allowed his kids to use the iPad. The effects of the device were too strong for children.
9. He was once kicked out of Apple in 1985 before coming back to revive it back in 1997.
10. Given birth on the 24th of February, 1955, he died at 56 on the 5th of October 2011. And his graveyard location remains unknown. The Apple co-founder at the time of his death was estimated at $7 billion.with a net worth of $13.9 billion, had died of pancreatic cancer.
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