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The incredible story of Steve Jobs will be told the upcoming biopic

Steve Jobs, portrayed by Michael Fassbender, with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin ( The West Wing, A Few Good Men). Ahead of the film's release, here are 13 facts you never knew about him.

He was adopted

His biological father, Abdulfattah Jandali, grew up in Syria and met his biological mother, Joanne Schieble at the University of Wisconsin. At the age of 23, they both thought it was too young to marry and having a child out of wedlock was unconventional so they gave their baby to Steve's adoptive parents, Paul and Clara. They raised him on the promise that he would go to college.

He was bullied

In the sixth grade, Steve attended at Crittenden Middle School where he was bullied for allegedly being odd. This resulted in Steve giving his parents an ultimatum - he would drop out of school if they didn't move. So, they moved to Los Altos in California (the birthplace of Apple) where he met fellow engineer Bill Fernandez, who introduced him to Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak.

He was a Zen Buddhist

In 1974 after working with electronics and video game company, Atari, Jobs travelled to India for 7 months in search for spiritual enlightenment. He meditated often, and was a known pescatarian - eating fish but not meat. He also liked to walk barefoot.

He was a college dropout

Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Silicon Valley, but dropped out of Reed College in Oregon because he didn't want to spend his parent's money. Although he did attend some classes, including calligraphy. In his 2005 commencement speech for Stanford University, Jobs stated that if he didn't drop into that class the Mac wouldn't have had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.

He experimented with psychedelics

Jobs experimented with LSD a few times claiming that it was a "profound experience" and "one of the most important things" in his life. He claimed it helped him to think differently.

He ripped off his partner Steve Wozniak

When Jobs worked for Atari, he had to make a circuit board for the video game Breakout. He told Wozniak that they would split the profit evenly if they could use less "TTL" chips. Jobs apparently told Wozniak that the pay out was $700 giving him $350. In fact Atari gave a sum of $5000 - which meant that Wozniak was owed $2500. Not cool.

Hewlett Packard offered Jobs a summer job

When Jobs was 12 HP founder Bill Hewlett offered him a summer job after Steve called him asking for parts for an electronics project. It was known that Jobs had a keen interest in engineering from a young age as he used to help his guardian, Paul, fix things on his workbench.

He was fired from Apple

Jobs was fired because Pepsi Executive John Sculley told the board that he was far too young. This was after Jobs recruited him. Jobs then started another project creating the NeXT computer, but sales were limited because it was too expensive.

Apple purchased NeXT stock resulting in Steve returning to Apple.

There is a silver lining to this story - the combination of NeXT hardware with Apple resulted in operating systems like iOS used for the iPhone.

He was one of the youngest people to make the Forbes list

Steve Jobs' success meant that he made it on a number of Forbes lists. He was number 17 on most powerful people in 2010, 39 on the Forbes 400 rich list in 2011, and 110 on Billionaires in 2011.

He denied paternity

Jobs had a child with Chrisann Brennan (his high school girlfriend) called Lisa. Even after a DNA test proved he was the father, he still continued to deny it, claiming he was sterile.

He named the computer Apple Lisa after his daughter.

He was one of the founders of Pixar

Jobs was a majority shareholder of Pixar, previously know as the Graphics Group.

He made Google change the yellow gradient in its "O"

Jobs called the former VP of Google, Vic Gundotra, and told him that second O in Google had the wrong shade of yellow and that he was going to fix it. Evidently, Steve had incredible attention to detail.

He is buried in an unmarked grave

Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003. He tried natural alternative healing such as becoming a vegan, acupuncture, and herbal remedies. He resisted medicine. Jobs died at his home in Palo Alto with his family at his side. His final words were "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow."

Steve Jobs will be released 13 November in the UK.

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Steve Jobs (Feb 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011) was an American businessman and inventor who played a key role in the success of Apple computers and the development of revolutionary new technology such as the iPod, iPad and MacBook.

Early Life

Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, 1955, to two university students Joanne Schieble and Syrian-born John Jandali. They were both unmarried at the time, and Steven was given up for adoption.

Steven was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, whom he always considered to be his real parents. Steven's father, Paul, encouraged him to experiment with electronics in their garage. This led to a lifelong interest in electronics and design.

Jobs attended a local school in California and later enrolled at Reed College, Portland, Oregon. His education was characterised by excellent test results and potential. But, he struggled with formal education and his teachers reported he was a handful to teach.

At Reed College, he attended a calligraphy course which fascinated him. He later said this course was instrumental in Apple's multiple typefaces and proportionally spaced fonts.

Steve Jobs in India

In 1974, Jobs travelled with Daniel Kottke to India in search of spiritual enlightenment. They travelled to the Ashram of Neem Karoli Baba in Kainchi. During his several months in India, he became aware of Buddhist and Eastern spiritual philosophy. At this time, he also experimented with psychedelic drugs; he later commented that these counter-culture experiences were instrumental in giving him a wider perspective on life and business.

"Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger." - Steve Jobs, The New York Times, Creating Jobs, 1997

Job's first real computer job came working for Atari computers. During his time at Atari, Jobs came to know Steve Wozniak well. Jobs greatly admired this computer technician, whom he had first met in 1971.

Steve Jobs and Apple

In 1976, Wozniak invented the first Apple I computer. Jobs, Wozniak and Ronald Wayne then set up Apple computers. In the very beginning, Apple computers were sold from Jobs parents' garage.

Over the next few years, Apple computers expanded rapidly as the market for home computers began to become increasingly significant.

In 1984, Jobs designed the first Macintosh. It was the first commercially successful home computer to use a graphical user interface (based on Xerox Parc's mouse driver interface.) This was an important milestone in home computing and the principle has become key in later home computers.

Despite the many innovative successes of Jobs at Apple, there was increased friction between Jobs and other workers at Apple. In 1985, removed from his managerial duties, Jobs resigned and left Apple. He later looked back on this incident and said that getting fired from Apple was one of the best things that happened to him - it helped him regain a sense of innovation and freedom, he couldn't find work in a large company.

Life After Apple

On leaving Apple, Jobs founded NeXT computers. This was never particularly successful, failing to gain mass sales. However, in the 1990s, NeXT software was used as a framework in WebObjects used in Apple Store and iTunes store. In 1996, Apple bought NeXT for $429 million.

Much more successful was Job's foray into Pixar - a computer graphic film production company. Disney contracted Pixar to create films such as Toy Story, A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo. These animation movies were highly successful and profitable - giving Jobs respect and success.

In 1996, the purchase of NeXT brought Jobs back to Apple. He was given the post of chief executive. At the time, Apple had fallen way behind rivals such as Microsoft, and Apple was struggling to even make a profit.

Return to Apple

Jobs launched Apple in a new direction. With a certain degree of ruthlessness, some projects were summarily ended. Instead, Jobs promoted the development of a new wave of products which focused on accessibility, appealing design and innovate features.

The iPod was a revolutionary product in that it built on existing portable music devices and set the standard for portable digital music. In 2008, iTunes became the second biggest music retailer in the US, with over six billion song downloads and over 200 million iPods sold.

In 2007, Apple successfully entered the mobile phone market, with the iPhone. This used features of the iPod to offer a multi-functional and touchscreen device to become one of the best-selling electronic products. In 2010, he introduced the iPad - a revolutionary new style of tablet computers.

The design philosophy of Steve Jobs was to start with a fresh slate and imagine a new product that people would want to use. This contrasted with the alternative approach of trying to adapt current models to consumer feedback and focus groups. Job's explains his philosophy of innovative design.

"But in the end, for something this complicated, it's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."

- Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek (25 May 1998)

Apple has been rated No.1 in America's most admired companies. Jobs management has been described as inspirational, although c-workers also state, Jobs could be a hard taskmaster and was temperamental. NeXT Cofounder Dan'l Lewin was quoted in Fortune as saying of that period, "The highs were unbelievable ... But the lows were unimaginable."

"My job is not to be easy on people. My jobs is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better." - All About Steve Jobs [link]

Under Jobs, Apple managed to overtake Microsoft regarding share capitalization. Apple also gained a pre-eminent reputation for the development and introduction of groundbreaking technology. Interview in 2007, Jobs said:

"There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will."

Despite, growing ill-health, Jobs continued working at Apple until August 2011, when he resigned.

Wealth

"I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money."

- Steve Jobs

Jobs earned only $1million as CEO of Apple. But, share options from Apple and Disney gave him an estimated fortune of $8.3billion.
Personal life
In 1991, he married Laurene Powell, together they had three children and lived in Palo Alto, California.

In 2003, he was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer. Over the next few years, Jobs struggled with health issues and was often forced to delegate the running of Apple to Tim Cook. In 2009, he underwent a liver transplant, but two years later serious health problems returned. He worked intermittently at Apple until August 2011, where he finally retired to concentrate on his deteriorating health. He died as a result of complications from his pancreatic cancer, suffering cardiac arrest on 5 October 2011 in Palo Alto, California.

In addition to his earlier interest in Eastern religions, Jobs expressed sentiments of agnosticism.

" Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don't. I think it's 50-50 maybe. But ever since I've had cancer, I've been thinking about it more. And I find myself believing a bit more. I kind of - maybe it's 'cause I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn't just all disappear."

Quote in Biography by Walter Isaacson.

Steve Jobs is buried in an unmarked grave at Alta Mesa Memorial Park, a nonsectarian cemetery in Palo Alto.

Citation: Pettinger, Tejvan. "Biography of Steve Jobs", Oxford, UK. www.biographyonline.net , 25th Feb. 2012. Last updated 11th March 2018.

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