Why join the Navy when you can be a Pirate, Steve Jobs had is own way of leading his life. There are innumerable blogs around the web that are talking about the success stories of Steve Jobs. Why not! After all this legendary figure deserves to be applauded for all good reasons. With so many blogs coming up with Steve’s business successes that at one point might sound bit boring, we thought of bringing a twist in the story and talk about the things that not many people might have known about.
No matter how well known personality Steve is in the technology sector, he has lived the life of an artist. Turning everything in the life upside down, making horrible mistakes, doing things differently, failing, cheating, lying, having everyone hate you, and workingwith wisdom is what you call the way of living life that leads to success and Steve has lived his life this way. How I wonder Steve stands out of the crowd!
Here are some Less know Facts About Steve Jobs
1. Arrogant Customer Service Rep
Steve Jobs used to get about 300 emails a day to his Apple email address. He used to not reply to most of them, but every now and then he’d get his Gun out go wild on some poor kid. In 2010, a Long Island journalism student emailed Jobs on a whim after her repeated requests to Apple’s PR department for a quote went unanswered. Jobs’s response was a customer “Our goals do not include helping you get a good grade. Leave us alone.”
2. No Charity
Did you all know that no matter how profitable Apple Inc. is, Steve, throughout his career as the CEO of the company, didn’t do any charity. Jobs just believed in putting his energy into improving the quality of life with his best inventions.
3. Steve was a Pescetarian
Steve used to just eat fish and no other meat. Now, even I was unaware of this fact that Steve is a pescetarian.
4. Brought a company which was under loss from George Lucas, renamed it to Pixar
After leaving Apple, Jobs had money to burn and felt like spending it. One of his most perplexing purchases was in 1986, when he paid George Lucas $5 million for the deeply unprofitable Graphics Group of Lucasfilm.
Lucas needed cash badly after his nasty divorce and the failure of Howard The Duck, and the Graphics Group – soon renamed Pixar – started trying to sell a high-end imaging computer to medical and government clients. The company was done. That is, until employee John Lasseter’s animation department started making commercials and then feature films. Soon, these new approaches saved Disney from total cultural irrelevance.
5. He used to Park in Handicap reserve parking at the Cupertino Campus, Apple’s HQ, 1, Infinite Loop.
When Jobs returned to Apple, his legendary temper came with him. As he aged, Jobs gave less and less of a crap about what people used to think of him, but some of his habits were particularly nasty.
Because Apple’s campus has no reserved parking spots, even for executives, Jobs tends to park his Mercedes (which doesn’t have a visible license plate, here is the secret)Â in the handicapped spot next to the door. He’s rich enough that he just pays the ticket whenever the cops are called and shrugs it off. God forbid any actual handicapped people want to visit the Cupertino campus when Steve is at work.
6. Employee Zero
Jobs’ legendary ego has been the subject of many a screed, but this interesting tale from the early days of Apple is very telling. After Jobs and Wozniak founded the company with Ronald Wayne, the initial Board of Directors decreed that every employee needed to be issued a name badge and an employee number based on their date of hire. Wozniak got number one, which left Jobs with number two. Needless to say, he wasn’t very happy about that, and made so much of a stink that the number two badge was retired and he was issued a new one… number zero.
Some more interesting facts
- His full name was Steven Paul Jobs .
- Apples were Steve Jobs favorite food.
- Steve Jobs was dyslexic.
- Steve Jobs was a Buddhist.
- Steve Jobs, in his early days, was a phone phreaker (made free calls over the world with one of his teams inventions, called Pope once, just for fun)
- Steve Jobs met Steve Wozniak(former electronics hacker) when Jobs was 16 and Wozniak 21.
- Steve Jobs was a college drop out.
- He dropped out after a single semester, but he kept going to class by exploiting a system known as “auditing,” where prospective students can sit in on lectures for free.
- Steve Jobs worked as a technician for video game company Atari, primarily to be able to afford a spiritual trip to India.
- Steve Jobs traveled to India looking for enlightenment in 1974.
- Steve Jobs had four children: one son and three daughters.
- He was fired from his own company in 1985.
- Steve Jobs used to pay himself an annual salary of $1.
- He was 136th richest person in the world.
- Steve Jobs once dated folk heroine Joan Baez, reportedly because she had once been the lover of Bob Dylan.
- Steve Jobs had big feet, at size 14.
- Steve Jobs personally holds Over 300 Patents.
- Steve Jobs was awarded the National Medal of Technology from Ronald Reagan.