joi, 6 octombrie 2011

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.






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