Fun Facts About Steve Jobs
- Steve Jobs credited a calligraphy course he audited at Reed College for the Mac having multiple typefaces and proportionally spaced fonts.[1]
- At 13, Jobs landed a summer job from Bill Hewlett of Hewlett-Packard after cold-calling him to ask for parts for an electronics project.[1]
- According to Steve Wozniak, Jobs told him Atari paid only $750 for their Breakout circuit board, when the actual payment was $5,000.[1]
- Before Apple, Jobs and Wozniak secretly sold illegal blue boxes for free long-distance calls; Jobs later said that without them there wouldn't have been an Apple.[1]
- While publicly denying he was the father of his daughter Lisa, Jobs and his team came up with Local Integrated Software Architecture as an alternative explanation for the Apple Lisa's name.[1]
- When Disney bought Pixar in 2006, Jobs received 7% of Disney shares and joined its board as the company's largest individual shareholder.[1]
- Steve Jobs and Mother Teresa were alive at the same time for 42 years.[1][2][3][4]
- Steve Jobs was alive at the same time as T. S. Eliot — their lives overlapped for 10 years (1955–1965).[1][2][5][6]
Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976. After the company's board of directors fired him in 1985, he founded NeXT the same year and purchased Pixar in 1986, becoming its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007. Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 as CEO, where he was closely involved with the creation and promotion of many of the company's most influential products until his resignation in 2011.[1]
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Questions About Steve Jobs
When was Steve Jobs born?
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, and died on October 5, 2011.
How old was Steve Jobs at death?
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, and died on October 5, 2011, at age 56.
What was Steve Jobs known for?
Steve Jobs was known for: Co-founded Apple, changed technology. Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976. After the company's board of directors fired him in 1985, he founded NeXT the same year and purchased Pixar in 1986, becoming its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007. Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 as CEO, where he was closely involved with the creation and promotion of many of the company's most influential products until his resignation in 2011.
Who was alive at the same time as Steve Jobs?
Steve Jobs's closest contemporary was Nelson Mandela. Their lives overlapped for 56 years.
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- Steve Jobs — Wikipedia. Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0
- Steve Jobs (Q19837) — Wikidata
- Mother Teresa — Wikipedia
- Mother Teresa (Q30547) — Wikidata
- T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
- T. S. Eliot (Q37767) — Wikidata
- Portrait: Steve Jobs Headshot 2010-CROP2.jpg — Wikimedia Commons. Matthew Yohe at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0