Steven Paul Jobs better known Steve Jobs, who's a business magnate, co-founder of the Apple and the "Ex-CEO" of the same. We all know about him but this article sheds it light at some interesting facts of life and his entrepreneurial journey.
• A Zen Buddhist and rose by adoptive parents. Belongs to the league of famous college drop-outs that include Bill Gates (Microsoft), Larry Ellison (Oracle), Michael Dell (Dell) and Richard Branson (Virgin group).
• "Finding Nemo", "Wall-E", "Cars", "Ratatouille", "Toy story series", "Up" are the modern day animation marvels. The name that connects all these is "Pixar studios". Jobs served as its Chief executive till Disney bought it in 2006 making him the largest shareholder.
• The usage of "i" as in "iTunes", "iPod" etc started with "iMac" in 1998 which according to him meant internet, individual, instruct, inform, inspire!
• He travelled to India to meet Neem Karoli Baba with his college friend in search of enlightenment and came back a Buddhist with his head shaved in Indian traditional cloths.
• During his stay in India, he experimented with psychedelics of which he named LSD experiences as "One of the two or three most important things done in life".
• In 2008, Bloomberg accidentally published Jobs' obituary. Seriously, can you believe that?
• He has been suffering from "pancreatic cancer" since 2004. Hormonal imbalance, a brutal and complex operation named "Whipple procedure" and a liver transplant weren't able to stop him at any point.
• When a reporter asked what market research went into the iPad, Jobs replied: "None? .It's not the consumers' job to know what they want."
• Apple wanted John Sculley(Ex-President of Pepsi-Co) for the marketing of their computers. Jobs successfully sealed the deal with his legendary pitch to Sculley saying "Sell coloured sugar water for the rest of the life or come with me and change the world?"
• Surprisingly, this business tycoon holds 313 patents while his tech peers Bill gates got 9 and Larry Page got 12.
• Jobs' resignation is supposedly the worst news for Apple Inc. but surprisingly, the share cost didn't even blink at the wall street and the share price ended up being 32% more than the day before's closing price.
• Apple paid CEO Jobs' only $1 a year. Don't be awestruck; it's just the funny side. He holds 5.426 million Apple shares, as well as 138 million shares in Disney.
• Steve loves Bob Dylan and also a great fan of "The Grateful Dead" and "The Beatles". Also, describes himself as an "audiophile".
• "I don’t give a s#*t about what I look like", Steve once confided to friends. This is why he is always seen in his Levi’s blue jeans and black mock turtleneck, even for public occasions.
• Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. - Steve Jobs.
I strongly hope that Jobs' retirement will be like "Frank Sinatra's retirement". Don't worry if you don't get it. It just means that his pace of doing things decreases as he just pretends to be out of the picture but doesn't really leave entire frame and keeps coming back onto the world for a certain amount of time.
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