31 Mind Blowing Facts About Steve Jobs 

Everyone is sure to know who Steve Jobs is, the super genius who revolutionized modern technology with top-notch digital devices. Steve Jobs was the co-founder of Apple Inc as well as the mastermind who emphasized style as much as function in our everyday digital devices.

Well, today we’re going to look at some mind-blowing facts about the late tech-genius. I bet there are few things about Steve that you never knew that are sure to shock you.

Alright, let’s go!

1. Jobs was adopted shortly after his mom gave birth to him. Also, he was half Arab and American, as his father was Syrian and his mother was American.

2. Steve spent up to seven months touring around India, experimenting with psychedelic drugs and he eventually adopted the practices of Zen Buddhism.

3. He never ate meat, only fish. Hence, Jobs was a pescetarian

4. Jobs met Apple’s Co-founder Steve Wozniak in high school. At that time Jobs was 13 and Wozniak was 18.

5. He was a college dropout but he struggled to continue his education by informally auditing classes. One class Jobs audited was a course on calligraphy, according to him the course was instrumental in the future of Apple products.

6. Jobs had a low GPA, just 2.65. He confessed that he never fancied school structure and preferred to learn in unconventional ways.

7. He used to collect Coke bottle caps for money during his college years.

8. Jobs loved to eat his Sunday meals at a Krishna temple during his college years. That’s one of the reasons that propelled his desire to visit India.

9. Steve Jobs, unknown to him once visited his biological father, Abdulfattah Jandali’s restaurant and loved the food there. At that time neither of them knew they were related, it was Jobs biological sister, Mona Simpson who figured that out later.

10. Jobs once stole from his partner and co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak. It happened when both of them first created the Breakout game for Atari. They agreed on splitting the pay equally. Atari actually gave Jobs $5,000 for the game, but Steve told Wozniak they got $700. At the end of the day, Wozniak got $350 while Jobs pocketed the remaining $4,650.

11. The moment Jobs had the belief that if he ate too many apples, he wouldn’t need to take a shower, Folks around him started complaining about his smell. He always disagreed and argued with their views, but later on, he got the point.

12. Speaking of his hygiene, Jobs was transferred to the night shift while working at Atari due to complaints about his smell. He rarely showered and would walk around barefoot in the Atari offices.

13. Apple also had a third founder known as Ronald Wayne. He even designed Apple’s first logo, but he sold his ten percent stake for $800 just two weeks after working with Jobs and Wozniak.

14. In 1985, Jobs was kicked out of his company. Later on, he recognized the plan as a blessing in disguise as it gave him the chance to become more creative and acquire an animation studio, which would later be known as Pixar. He took back his crown as CEO in 1997 and brought the failing company back to life.

15. Also, after Jobs was fired from Apple, he changed his style of glasses to match the style of one of his mentors, none other than Mahatma Gandhi.

16. Jobs earned $1 annually as CEO of Apple.

17. As we mentioned earlier, Jobs had a biological sister and he connected with her later on in life. He and Mona Simpson became very fond of each other, and the pair were naturally artistic and shared a lot in common.

18. Jobs was known to wear a $1,000 Porsche watch and he used to give it as a gift to anyone who appreciated the design. Later on, precisely after a few minutes, he would have another piece of the same watch on his wrist again.

19. Jobs owned a silver Mercedes, but he never put a license plate on it, despite the fact that he drove it consistently. Well, how did he do it? Jobs just changed cars every six months, and this allows him to drive without plates (California has a law that a car owner has six months to put plates on a new car). So, I guess you know how it went down.

20. Steve Jobs served as a mentor for Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Bring. He even shared some of his advisers with the Google Duo.

21. Jobs was infuriated when Google created its Android devices since they became an Apple competitor in the phone market.

22. He was popularly known as an egomaniac. Steve was infamous for being hard and demanding, in 1993, he was listed as one of America’s toughest bosses.

23. Steve was not really friendly to journalists and the media. He always wanted to retain complete control of Apple’s impression on the public. A teenager, Nicholas Ciarelli, was even sued by Apple for his Think Secret blog, where he revealed secret details about Apple’s upcoming devices.

24. Jobs had romantic relationships with celebrities, Joan Baez and Diane Keaton.

25. He always disliked the idea of selling PCs. He once said this to a friend, “I’d rather sell dog sh*t than PCs.”

26. Jobs was once invited by Bill Clinton to spend the night in the Lincoln bedroom of the White House.

27. Steve never fancied the idea of being a philanthropist. In fact, During Apple’s beginnings, Jobs ended the company’s philanthropic activities, mentioning that they would resume when the company was more profitable. However, the programs were never reinstated despite Apple’s enormous success.

28. Jobs had an illegitimate child (Lisa Brennan) when he was 23. He denied the paternity for years, but he eventually accepted Lisa as his legitimate child, and she changed her name to Lisa Brennan-Jobs.

29. Steve Jobs had an entire team focused on packaging; they studied the experience of opening a box to learn how to achieve the emotional response and excitement that is now common with Apple’s products.

30. He is the only person in the entire world to have the most number of books and films featuring his life story.

31. Steve’s last words on his deathbed were, “Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow,” while gazing over his family’s shoulders.

Well, there you have it, folks. So far we have explored many cool, weird, inspirational and surprising facts about the digital mastermind. Here’s to Steve Jobs.