On October 5, 2011, we received the tragic news of the death of Steve Jobs, the founder and CEO of Apple, and one of the great references in the world of technology. A damn liver cancer that was detected in April 2009 took him forever, after a long and tedious fight against the disease. Luckily Jobs has left us a large collection of devices that bear his unmistakable stamp, among which the iPod, iPhone or iPad stand out.
Also in his legacy we find a lot of anecdotes, some of them known to almost everyone and some less known. Today through this article we are going to recall some of those best known anecdotes and we are going to tell you some, which have gone unnoticed by almost everyone, and that we have rescued by investigating a little in the life of the genius who was able to found Apple, to be fired and to return to triumph without palliative, charging a dollar a year for his work.
Steve Jobs was Apple's No. 0 employee
The former Apple board of directors wanted all of its employees to have a card with their name and a number that would be assigned according to the order in which they were hired. Older employees would have the lowest numbers and those with the shortest time with the company would have a higher number.
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, received number 1 and Steve Jobs was employee number 2. This greatly angered Jobs who complained and protested greatly, until the board of directors decided to change his employee number, giving him 0 so as not to settle an absurd dispute for almost everyone.
Apples were his favorite food
Steve Jobs was a known vegetarian and his favorite food was apples, hence the name he gave to the company he founded with his friend Steve Wozniak.
It was further rumored for a long time that many Apple employees used to hide at lunchtime, especially if they ate hamburgers or fast food, to avoid a nutritional talk from Jobs.
He was one of the early advocates of WiFi
It is something that has gone very unnoticed by almost everyone, but Steve Jobs, was one of the great pioneers of WiFi. Neither short nor lazy, in 1999 Apple introduced the iBook, which was then the first Netbook with WiFi, with a message that was displayed on the screen of this device that Jobs had sent to Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing manager.
He was a renowned Zen Buddhist
Jobs was always a renowned Zen Buddhist, even thinking of going to a monastery to become a monk. Luckily for everyone, he decided to continue his professional career and although partly betraying Buddha, he was able to combine his work at Apple with his religion.
He baptized one of his creations with the name of his unrecognized daughter
Steve Jobs was a different man, and although he was deeply saddened that his biological parents had given him up for adoption, he was not able to recognize his daughter Lisa, born in 1978 from her relationship with Chrisann Brennan. Perhaps repentant and some time later he baptized one of his creations with the name of his daughter.
From Cupertino, they claimed that this name was the acronym for "Local Integrated System Architecture", but no one believed this version. Despite Jobs' efforts in this project, the computer was a real failure and the 3.000 units that were kept in Apple warehouses ended up in a landfill due to the impossibility of selling them.
Finally the genius recognized the paternity and the error committed, going so far as to say; “He couldn't admit it, he really just wanted her to have an abortion. Raising a child is very hard and I was not prepared ».
A joking and lying guy
Everyone who knew him spoke well of Steve, but despite his always serious gesture, he was a very joking type, who at the same time easily used lies for their own benefit.
He showed signs of his joking nature when During the presentation of the first iPhone, he called Starbucks to order 4.000 coffees for all those attending the event. His lying side was also on display when he told his friend Steve Wozniak that Atari had only given him $ 700 for his creation, giving him $ 350. They actually paid him $ 5.000 which he kept for the most part. Of course, we do not know how he finally used them.
Was adopted
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco fruit of the relationship between Joanne Schieble, a single graduate student and Abdulfattah Jandali, a student from Syria. Both decided to give it up for adoption to Clara and Paul Jobs, who were the main culprits of his fondness for electronics.
Of course, they were not able to fulfill the promise they made to their biological parents that their son would finish a university degree.
Apple did not make him a millionaire since his annual salary was 1 dollar
Despite what many believe Steve Jobs did not become a millionaire with Apple, although he did get a huge sum of money. His big success was buying Pixar from George Lucas for $ 10 million, for a short time later to sell them to Disney for a dizzying 7.6 billion dollars.
With the IPO of Pixar and the creation of international hits such as "Toy Story," Steve surpassed $ 1.000 billion in net worth before returning to Apple. On his return to Cupertino as CEO, his salary was $ 1 a year. There is no doubt that money was not important to him, although it seems clear that he did not need much of it either.
He was fired from the company he founded
A power struggle with John sculley, who had been hired to run Apple, ended with the firing of Steve Jods from the company he founded.
"I didn't see it then, but it happened that being fired from Apple was the best thing that could have happened to me"
After being fired, he managed to become a millionaire as we have already told you before, and shortly after the return to Apple took place, which was full of successes until his death.
Set a fashion style
Steve Jobs was a peculiar character even to dress up and she always wore the same outfit, creating her own fashion style that many have imitated. In his classic round glasses, black turtleneck, and well-worn Levis jeans, Jobs was perfectly recognizable to almost everyone.
The customary design of the Apple founding genius's attire is believed to have been the work of fashion designer Issey Miyake, who reportedly sent him a shipment of identical clothing for a lifetime. The glasses were from the German manufacturer Lunor and with the passage of time they have become a classic model and demanded by many people.
I was dyslexic
One of the most surprising curiosities of the Cupertino genius is that He was dyslexic, something that did not prevent him from succeeding in every way. Nor did it stop other great geniuses like Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell or Henry Ford who were also dyslexic.
For those who have any doubts about what dyslexia is and before attributing things to good Steve that are not, we must tell you that it is a reading disorder that makes a correct understanding impossible.
I wanted to call the iMac "MacMan"
A year and a half after Steve Jobs' return to Apple, the company introduced the successful iMac. This computer marked a before and after for those of Cupertino who began an important recovery to become the company that it is today.
What few know is that the iMac, a name created by Apple publicist Ken Segall, came very close to being called "MacMan". This was the name that Steve Jobs thought of for the computer although he finally gave in to the iMac proposal.
He sold a computer to King Juan Carlos
Nobody has ever doubted the persuasiveness that Steve Jobs had, but what is less known is that one of those who suffered was Juan Carlos, the King of Spain himself for many years. At a fair in San Francisco and in a lively talk the founder of Apple, and at that time in NeXT, was able to sell him one of his computers.
The most curious thing about it is that those NeXT computers were granted for scientific use and not personal. We do not know how the King of Spain used it and how much he paid for it.
Lack of hygiene, a small problem
Steve Jobs did not eat meat and only ate fish, so he was convinced that his body did not produce bad odors and therefore I didn't need to shower daily or at least every other day like everyone else does. This is clearly not correct and his body, like anyone else's, produced bad odors.
The lack of hygiene meant when he worked at Atari that he was transferred to the night shift due to the complaints of many colleagues. In addition, his strange habit of walking barefoot around the office did not generate positive comments, as is totally normal.
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