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11 Things you might not know about Steve Jobs

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Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs died yesterday at the age of 56.He fought for many years with pancreatic cancer and now he unfortunately lost the battle.Steve Jobs was a legendary person.I will try to present to you 11 facts you might not know about him:
1:He dropped out of college:Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College after just six months saying that he followed his intuition.

2.Steve Jobs was adopted:He was born in San Francisco and was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs a Californian couple.His biological parents are Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali.
3.He was forced to leave Apple:It happened in 1985.After a fight with the board of directors he was forced to leave so he sold all his stock at Apple except one so he can continue to participate at shareholders meetings.After 11 years Jobs came back to Apple and started a renaissance in technology.
4.Jobs official salary was 1 dollar:Steve Jobs entered the Guinness Book of Records for having the lowest salary of a CEO in the entire world.
5.He owned 7% of Disney:He was the biggest shareholder at Disney.
6.Had an illegitimate daughter.
7.He ate only vegetables and fish 
8.Steve Jobs suffered from dyslexia:dyslexia is a learning deficiency that affects mostly reading and writing.Other famous people that suffered from dyslexia are:Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell and Leonardo da Vinci.
9.Was employee number 0:In the first meeting of the Apple leadership board it was decided that all employees to carry tags with the name and a number.Steve Wozniak the co-founder got number one and Steve Jobs number 2.Steve later protested and got number 0 because he was before one
10.Steve Jobs was a Zen Buddhist: His mentor Kobun Chino Otogawa, a zen monk married Steve and his wife.
11.He "stole" John Sculley from Pepsi: Steve Jobs convinced Sculley the Pepsi CEO to come to Apple saying:Do you want to sell water with sugar for the rest of your life or do you want to change the world.






Steve Jobs creator of personal computer,iPad,iPod and iPhone dies.

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Steve Jobs a man that influenced all of our lives and changed electronic technology forever has, Apple said,Steve Jobs was only 56.

A family statement says that Jobs died "peacefully" surrounded by his family members.Neither Jobs' family nor Apple revealed where Jobs died or from what cause, though in recent years he had fought a form of pancreatic cancer and had a liver transplant.



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After 35 years in which he started a revolution in IT technology,changed the way we use the internet phones and listen to music cofounder and CEO of Apple died yesterday.He was called "the Michelangelo of the digital era". After 3 decades of inovation Jobs had to resign this August from the position of CEO and to hand over the power to current Apple CEO Tim Cook.Apple now created especially for him the position on chairman of the company.



Steve Jobs dedicated his entire life to improving and quality of life and its hard to name how many industries he changed.
The homepage of Apple's website switched to a full-page image of Jobs with the text, "Steve Jobs 1955-2011."
Clicking on the image revealed additional text, credited in a separate memo to Apple employees to current Apple CEO Tim Cook.
"Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being," the text read. "Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple."
Reaction to Jobs' death came far and wide -- even from the White House.
"Michelle and I are saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Jobs," President Obama said in a written statement. "Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it."

SteveJobsdiedToday Apple is worth 350 Billion Dollars being the second largest company in the world.Jobs chairman of Apple until this last Wednesday had the same salary since 1998, one dollar. Called "the king of Silicon Valley" Jobs was born in 24th February 1955.His parent were two freshly college graduates that were not married.His mother decided to give him to adoption and finally Steve was given to the Jobs couple.17 years later Steve was a student.He dropped out after just 6 months unsatisfied by the high tuition fee and by the fact that had to go to courses that he had no interest in.He stayed in the campus,slept where could went only to the interesting classes and every Sunday he went on foot six miles to a Buddhist temple.Three years later he founded Apple in his parents garage with the help of Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.They've pioneered in the personal computers technology and soon became one of the most respected names in the technology sector.Jobs fought for power with the board of directors so when he was 30 he was forced to leave the company that he created.He soonly regrouped and founded two more technology giants NeXT and Pixar.


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NeXT was later bought by Apple and Steve jobs became once again the CEO of Apple in 1997.
Ever since each step Apple took was a great success because of Steve Jobs.They've launched the iPod in 2001 the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2010.All these innovations changed in the past ten years the way we listen music,we use phones or the internet.
Jeff Weiner CEO of LinkedIn called Jobs "the Michelangelo of the digital era"

 After his retirement six week ago Jobs assured us that Apples shiny days are to come.The fans hoped that maybe one day Steve will come back as CEO and take an ordinary object and transform it into something we can't even imagine now.
"The only way to the truly satisfied by what you do is to consider it extraordinary.And the only way to do something extraordinary is to love what you do"'
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"You're time is limited so don't waste your life living somebody else's.And most important always have the courage to follow your hearth and intuition.''
Steve Jobs founder of Apple