Steve Jobs was an entrepreneur and businessman from the United States. He is credited with co-founding the multinational technology company Apple Inc and founding the computer hardware and software company NeXT, which was later purchased by Apple Inc. He died at the age of 56 from a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor.

Born name

Steven Paul Jobs

nickname

Steve

Alter

Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955.

Died

Jobs died on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56 at his home in Palo Alto, California. He had been battling a recurrence of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor that led to respiratory failure.

Sun sign

fish

Place of birth

San Francisco, California, USA

nationality

training

Steve Jobs went to Monta Loma Elementary School in Mountain View. In the sixth grade he joined Crittenden Middle School . He later gained admission to Cupertino Junior High .

In 1968 he was enrolled at Homestead High School in Los Altos. After graduating from high school, he received admission to Reed College . He eventually dropped out of college because he didn’t want to spend most of his parents’ money on his tuition.

He also had an undergraduate English course at Stanford University .

occupation

Entrepreneurs and business magnates

family

• Vater – Abdul Fattah Jandali
• Mother – Joanne Schieble
• Siblings – Mona Simpson (sister), Patricia Ann Jobs (step-sister)
• Others – Paul Jobs (Adoptive Father) (Former Coast Guard, Repo Man and converted cars in his spare time), Clara Hagopian (Adoptive Mother), Arthur Casper Anthony Schieble (Maternal Grandfather), Irene Thekla Ziegler (Maternal Grandmother)

Manager

unknown

Build

Slim

Height

188 cm (6 ft 2 in)

weight

70 kg or 154 lbs

girlfriend/spouse

Steve Jobs has dated

1. Chrisann Brennan(1972-1977) – Steve Jobs first started dating Chrisann Brennan in 1972 while they were studying in high school. However, their relationship was volatile and very fickle in nature. In 1973 he rented a house near the Reed campus and invited her to stay with him. They had been in relationships with others and it was Jobs’ attempt to make their relationship monogamous. However, she chose not to live with him. After a short break, they got back together in 1975. They accidentally bumped into each other while working with a Zen Buddhist congregation in Los Altos. They broke up again when she went to India with her new boyfriend, Greg Calhoun, who was Jobs’ classmate at Reed College. Jobs himself drove her to the airport. When they returned from their trip to India, they met again. But how did he succeed withApple Their relationship became more complex. Their relationship was dealt a final blow when she told him she was pregnant with his child. He even refused to discuss pregnancy with her. She had to clean houses for money and rely on the welfare of her existence. She asked Jobs for money a couple of times, but he refused to help. He even started telling people that she was sleeping and he was infertile so he couldn’t have gotten her pregnant. In May 1978, she gave birth to Lisa Brennan. He continued to publicly deny paternity. In fact, he even questioned the credibility of the paternity test, after which he was ordered to pay Chrisann $500 a month. After being forced out Apple, he eventually repaired his relationship with her and reached a co-parenting equation with her.
2. Diane Keaton – While living in the San Remo condo, when he built the building, he wanted to meet up with actress Diane Keaton, who resided in the same iconic building on Central Park West. However, as she walked over to his huge apartment, he continued to talk about computers and how they would take over the world. So it came to nothing.
3. Joan baez – In his biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson claimed that Jobs dated singer Joan Baez for a short time. They were introduced by their sister Mimi Farina in 1982. They started dating seriously a little later. It has been claimed that he was most intrigued by the fact that she had dated Bob Dylan in the past. Their relationship ended when he revealed he wanted children. Baez wasn’t ready for this.
4. Laurene Powell (1989-2011) – Steve Jobs met Laurene Powell in 1989 during a lecture at the Stanford Graduate School of Business . She was one of the students and he couldn’t take his eyes off her in his lecture. After the lecture, he met her in the parking lot and asked her out for dinner. He proposed to her a bouquet of freshly picked wildflowers on New Year’s Day 1990. In May 1991 they were married in a Buddhist ceremony. At the end of the ceremony, they went on a hike. In September 1991, the couple welcomed their first child, son Reed. In August 1995, they welcomed their second child, daughter Erin, into their family. In 1998 she gave birth to her third child, daughter Eve. They stayed together until his death.

race/ethnicity

multiracial

He had Syrian ancestry on his father’s side, while on his mother’s side he was of German and Swiss-German ancestry.

hair colour

Dark Brown (Natural)

As he got older, his hair began to turn gray.

eye color

dark brown

sexual orientation

Just

distinguishing features

• Partly bald
• Wore a black turtleneck and blue jeans
• Wore round glasses

brand promotion

Steve Jobs did a Think Different TV commercial for Apple.

Religion

Jobs had complicated religious views. He had rejected Christianity and followed Zen Buddhism for some time.

Overall, however, his religious views tended towards atheism.

Known for

• Co-founder of the legendary American technology group Apple Inc. He also served as CEO (chief executive officer) and chairman of the company.
• Controlling shareholder of Pixar and also serves as the company’s chairman. After Walt Disney acquired Pixar , he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Walt Disney.

first movie

Steve Jobs has never appeared in a movie in his life.

First TV show

In 1981, Steve Jobs made his first TV show appearance on the family talk show, Hour Magazine .

Personal trainer

Steve Jobs relied on his uniquely fruit-oriented vegan diet to stay healthy. Its diet consisted primarily of nuts, fruits, seeds, grains, and vegetables. Steve absolutely avoided animal products. Also, he occasionally chose to eat just one or two foods, such as apples and carrots.

Steve Jobs favorite things

His favorite things are not known.

Steve Jobs Facts

1. When he was growing up, his father Paul Jobs built him a workbench in his garage so he could pass on his love of mechanics to his son.
2. By the age of 10 he was spending a lot of time fixing and researching electronics. He also made friends with many engineers in his neighborhood.
3. By the 4th grade, he was having trouble adjusting to traditional upbringing. He frequently misbehaved in class and was regularly suspended for his problems.
4. At the age of 13, he was hired by Billy Hewlett, the co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, for a summer job. He had written to Hewlett to request some parts for his electronics project.
5. Steve was introduced to Steve Wozniak, his fellow Apple co-founder, through Bill Fernandez, who was his classmate at Cupertino Junior High. Fernandez lived across from Wozniak.
6. He was hired by Atari, Inc. as a technician after taking on a new take on the classic video game Pong , designed by Steve Wozniak for the company.
7. In mid-1974 he made a trip to India to visit Neem Karoli Baba for spiritual enlightenment. However, when he reached Kainchi Ashram, he found it almost deserted when Neem Karoli Baba passed away in 1973.
8. He left India after 7 months and visited some ashrams in Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. Upon his return, he lived in a community in Oregon and experimented with psychedelics.
9. Before he established Apple he spent a lot of time on long meditation retreats at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, one of the oldest Zen monasteries in the United States.
10. He eventually returned to work with Atari and they offered to pay him $100 for each TTL chip scraped off the circuit board for the arcade video game Break Out . Knowing little about circuit board design, he recruited Wozniak to the project and told him that he would split the reward money evenly with him.
11. Wozniak managed to eliminate 46 TTL chips, but Jobs later told him he was only paid $700 for the work and he would pay $350. Wozniak would learn 10 years later that Jobs was paid $5,000.
12. He later worked with Wozniak to build a low-cost digital blue box that manipulated the telephone network to allow free long-distance calls. Their illegal endeavor proved profitable and gave them confidence that they could take on big companies and thrive.
13. In April 1976, he partnered with Wozniak and Ronald Wayne to start Apple Computer . When Wayne left after a short while, Wozniak and Jobs were the main founders of the company.
14. In 1977 he and Wozniak introduced the Apple II which would be the first consumer product to be sold by Apple.
15. At the age of 23 he became a millionaire. By the time he turned 24, he was worth $10 million. His fortune continued to grow exponentially and by the time he was 25 he was worth over 100 million.
16. In 1985 he was forced to resign from Apple after losing a political battle against John Sculley for leadership of the company. Ironically, Jobs had lured Sculley away from Pepsi-Cola and appointed him CEO of Apple.
17. In 1985 he founded NeXT Inc with $7 million from his own funds. The company was finally able to turn a profit in 1994. It was acquired by Apple Inc in 1997 for $427 million.
18. In 1986 he paid $5 million to acquire the Lucasfilm Graphics Group , which was a computer division of the company. Jobs started his spin-off as a company called Pixar.
19. In January 2006, he agreed to sell the company to Disney in a $7.4 billion all-stock transaction. As a result of the deal, he became the controlling shareholder of The Walt Disney Company when he then owned nearly 7 percent of the company’s stock.
20. In 1997 he returned to Apple Inc. In September 1997 he was officially appointed interim chief executive. In 2000, he removed the “Interim” modifier from his title and became the company’s permanent CEO.
21. In 1987, he began his public feud with Michael Dell, the CEO of Dell Computers, makes derogatory comments about Dell’s product. When Dell was asked in 1997 what he would do if Apple ran, he replied that he would shut it down and return the money to shareholders.
22. In 2006, Jobs responded with a dispute with Dell in an email to his employees when his company’s market cap rose above Dell’s and he suggested that Dell was not good at predicting the future.
23. In 1999 he was appointed a board member of the popular clothing brand. Gap Inc. . He held this position until 2002.
24. In 2004 he announced that he had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his pancreas. Initially he resisted proper medical intervention, instead relying on alternative medicine for healing.
25. In April 2009, he underwent liver transplant surgery at the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Center in Memphis.
26. In August 2011, he officially resigned from his post as CEO. He assumed the role of CEO and announced Tim Cook as the company’s new CEO.
27. He was on the cover of TIME Magazine eight times during his lifetime.
28. He rarely showered and avoided using deodorant as he felt his vegan and fruit-centric diet was causing body odor. However, some of the people who worked with him felt differently.
29. In 2005, he was asked to deliver a commencement speech at Stanford University. In his speech, he recounted his difficult days of having to return Coke bottles for food and money and sleeping on the floor of his friends’ dormitories.
30. In 2004, he was at the top of Premiere’s Power 100 list, along with John Lasseter, co-head of Pixar. In 2006, he was in a similar position on the Power 50 list.