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10 Things You Didn't Know About Steve Jobs
10 Things You Didn't Know About Steve Jobs... Steve Jobs an American entrepreneur, businessman, inventor, and industrial designer. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixara member of The Walt Disney Company's board o... Read More
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10 Things You Didn't Know About Steve Jobs... Steve Jobs an American entrepreneur, businessman, inventor, and industrial designer. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixara member of The Walt Disney Company's board o... Read More
10 Things You Didn't Know About Steve Jobs... Steve Jobs an American entrepreneur, businessman, inventor, and industrial designer. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixara member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs and Apple-
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despite his genius reputation as a
technology innovator Apple mastermind
Steve Jobs never wrote a single line of
programming code for any of his
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multitude of Apple inventions the
programming was left to Steve Wozniak
Jobs one-time partner and Alan bomb
while Jobs never did the programming or
engineering himself he did make the
necessary altercations to the devices
and monitors that made them appear more
user-friendly and accessible in an
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effort to demonstrate a point about
making the original iPod even smaller
than what was first handed to him Jobs
dropped the music player into an
aquarium and pointed out the bubbles
that rose to the surface from the device
Jobs told his engineers that these were
air bubbles which meant there was space
in the device to cram the instruments in
engineering even closer together to
produce a smaller iPod the folks at
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Apple have continued to take on this
challenge
while the first iPod was nineteen point
nine millimeters thin the most recent
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model is 6.1 millimeters jobs eccentric
nature around the office didn't just
affect how he approached work he
expected all of his employees to arrive
on time and extra prepared for the day's
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obstacles when one of his secretaries a
single mom trying to make ends meet
showed up late for work because her car
wouldn't start
jobs through her a set of keys to a
brand new
Jaguar with the insistence
that she should never be late for work
again Steve Jobs also made his
workplaces a bit more uncomfortable
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after committing to diets of only one or
two fruits for weeks at a time
he believed partaking in fruitarianism
the vegan subset diet of eating only
fruit would eliminate his need for
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showering so he could spend even more
time mapping out and constructing new
Apple products early employees of jobs
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noticed that this diet not only forced
him to have to work the night shift at
Atari due to complaints about his
but his skin color even changed to a
sunset hue because of his restrictive
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diet jobs attention to detail often
places the late CEO into two camps an
efficient passionate leader and someone
who may have been downright insane in
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jobs called Google's senior vice
president of engineering with a minor
emergency stating that the shade of a
yellow o in Google was not correct and
should be fixed immediately as it did
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not look good on the iPhone the issue was fixed and it was assumed everyone
was finally able to get a good sleep
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that night in Apple's early days as a
company an argument broke out amid Steve
Wozniak and Steve Jobs as to who should
be considered the number one on their
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identification name badges Wozniak was
offered the number one but Jobs fought
him vehemently for it
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angry that he was considered number two
for literally anything while Wozniak
ended up keeping the number one on his
badge Jobs accepted the digit of zero at
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his insistence that it comes before the
number one another battle between
Wozniak and Jobs proved jobs disloyalty
to his partner over his own ego after
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creating a game called breakout for the
Atari console Wozniak and jobs plan to
split the money made from it at 50/50
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when the paycheck was delivered to Jobs
he told Wozniak the company had paid
them $700 total instead of the $5,000
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that was originally in the contract
Wozniak went home with a 50/50 split of
$350 while Jobs pocketed 4600 $50 for
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himself Jobs insistence that he did not
need modern medical treatments may have
led to his eventual downfall after the
discovery of his pancreatic cancer in
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2003 Jobs ignored the advice of doctors
to proceed with necessary surgeries and
exams instead subscribing to extreme
vegan diets practicing the ancient art
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of acupuncture utilizing herbal remedies
and even consulting a psychic this
however is not a strange phenomenon
CEOs as using psychics for business
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deals and transactions is fairly common
jobs did not attempt surgery for his
cancer until nine months after first
being diagnosed a choice critics say
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greatly shortened his life span
originally known as the graphics group
the company we know today as Pixar was
saved by Steve Jobs on numerous
occasions jobs purchased the company
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from Star Wars creator George Lucas for
10 million dollars in 1986 and then
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spearheaded and oversaw production of
the company's first feature film Toy
Story jobs also helped fine-tune the
story of the movie as it was originally
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written with woody as a bad guy when
Jobs sold Pixar back to the Walt Disney
Company in 2006 it came with a price tag
of 7.4 billion dollars this deal made
Steve Jobs the largest shareholder in
Disney through all his eccentric and
questionable behavior job still came
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from very humble beginnings in the 2005
Stanford commencement address Jobs
claimed that throughout his brief time
in college he was homeless and without a
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dorm room often opting to sleep on the
floor in his friends rooms he
obsessively collected coke bottles for
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five cents in an effort to pay for food
and would travel seven miles across town
every Sunday in order to have one good
meal a week at the Harry Krishna temple
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just as an added bonus to this video and
although it doesn't have anything to do
with Steve Jobs we had to include this
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little known fact about Apple co-founder
Steve Wozniak as a teenager
Wozniak once found himself spending an
evening in the local juvenile detention
center after putting a ticking fake bomb
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in a locker at his high school while the
administration was not impressed
Wozniak cell mates were as the genius
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programmer taught them how to connect
the cables from the prison ceiling fans
to the jail cell bars shocking anyone
that touched them
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