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\"Steve<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n


\u201cStay hungry, stay foolish\u201d<\/strong>
\u201cInnovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower\u201d<\/strong>
\u2013 Steve Jobs<\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

1. About Steve Jobs : <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steven Paul Jobs was an American\nentrepreneur and inventor, best known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of\nApple Inc. With his vision of affordable personal computers, he sets the\nstandard for the look and feel of personal computers and launched one of the\nlargest industries of the past decades. He is most famous for creating Apple\nInc, the multimillion-dollar brand that has taken over the world, from MacBook\ncomputers to iPods and iPhones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Steve Jobs Birth : <\/strong>He was half Arab. Biologically, his father was Syrian and his mother was American.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Born on : <\/strong>February 24, 1955<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Born in : <\/strong>San Francisco, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Jobs Birth name : <\/strong>Abdul Lateef Jandali<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Steve Jobs was : <\/strong>an adopted child by Paul Reinhold Jobs and Clara<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Jobs early Interest :<\/strong> Electronics and Gadgetry, as he lives in the south of Palo Alto, California \u2013 later refer the area as “Silicon Valley”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Early job at HP : <\/strong>William Hewlett, the president of Hewlett-Packard offers him a summer job at HP after seeing his enthusiasm for electronics at high school<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Jobs Education :<\/strong> After high school, he was a college dropout from Reed College in Portland, Oregon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. Jobs Practice :<\/strong> Jobs traveled to India and adopted the practices of  Zen Buddhism, which became a huge part of his life and he almost became a Buddhist monk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11. Founded Apple : <\/strong>In 1976, <\/strong>He and Steve Wozniak formed their own company called Apple<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12. First Income : <\/strong>Jobs and Wozniak raised $1,300 in startup money by selling Jobs’s microbus and Wozniak’s calculator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13. Jobs First computer : <\/strong>In 1976, <\/strong>Apple\u2019s first desktop model the Apple-1 computer was priced at $666.66, and recently that was sold to an anonymous buyer for around $470,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14. First to introduce mouse and GUI : <\/strong>Jobs replaced the text-based command-line interface with a mouse-driven graphical user interface. Instead of typing in commands with a keyboard, users could click on on-screen icons using a mouse controller<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15. Jobs one-dollar salary : <\/strong>From 1997 to 2011, Jobs made an annual salary of just $1, But he holds 5.5 million shares of Apple stock and was the majority shareholder of Disney stock (from selling Pixar)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16. Jobs net worth : <\/strong>Jobs was worth over $1 million at the age of 23. His net worth grew to $10.2 billion at the time of his death<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17. Steve job loves :<\/strong> To wear his signature black turtleneck outfit daily and which was designed by the innovative Japanese designer Issey Miyake<\/p>\n\n\n\n

18. Job’s biggest acquisition : <\/strong>Jobs was pushed out of Apple in 1985 and he purchased a small company called Pixar from filmmaker George Lucas. Later Pixar released Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., a huge box office hit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

19. Jobs revolution in music :<\/strong> In 2001, Jobs debuted the Apple iPod and that turned people from buying music CDs to iTunes, which stores thousands of songs and offers consumers an affordable way to download songs to their computes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20. Kicking off the tablet trend : <\/strong>Jobs debuted the iPad tablet in April 2010, and even Apple faced a lot of doubters. But the media tablet soon became another hit product<\/p>\n\n\n\n

21. Stevenote : <\/strong>A typical Stevenote began with Jobs presenting sales<\/a> figures for Apple products and a review of products released during the past few months. He then presented one or more new products as \u201cAnd one more thing\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

22. Jobs Patenting :<\/strong> Jobs is listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor for 346 United States patents related to a range of technologies, with most of the patents being for design<\/p>\n\n\n\n

23.<\/strong> Steve Jobs was invited by Bill Clinton once to spend the night sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom of the White House<\/p>\n\n\n\n

24. Jobs last days :<\/strong> Jobs was found to have pancreatic cancer in 2003 and underwent surgery. This was a major factor in his eventual decline<\/p>\n\n\n\n

25. Steve Jobs\u2019s final words : <\/strong>At Jobs\u2019s funeral, his biological sister Mona Simpson revealed that job died peacefully, with the simple yet poignant final words \u201cOH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

26. Steve Jobs Day : <\/strong>Every year, <\/strong>October 16 was celebrated as Steve Jobs Day in the state of California and that was declared by the Governor of California<\/p>\n\n\n\n

27. Jobs statue :<\/strong> There is a nearly 7 foot (2.1 meters) tall bronze statue of Jobs in the capital city of Hungary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

28. Jobs Honors : <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n