Top 10 Hidden Facts about Steve Jobs, We Don’t Know!
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October 15, 2011 • 
We have lost Steve Jobs- the best among us. He was visionary thinker, astonishing innovator and a great techie of our times. Steve Jobs lovers want to know each and every bit about Jobs’ life, his work and his achievements. The newspapers and the technology sites are writing tons of words to tribute Steve Jobs for his superb work and efforts to make our lives easier with his best crafted gadgets- Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Here is a collection of top 10 facts about Steve Jobs those we don’t know. These are the hidden anecdotes of Steve Jobs which we collected for you…..bit-by-bit from the web.
1. 110th Richest Person in the World:
According to a latest report by Forbes on World’s Billionaires, Steve Jobs was at 110th place among the world’s richest persons with a worth of $7 billion. He held 5.426 million Apple shares and 138 million shares in Disney, as well. Interestingly enough, even at the age of 25, he was declared a billionaire before he left Apple in 1984. If he didn’t sell his shares in Apple back in 1985, he would have been worth amazing $36 billion, and would have been placed at 5th places in world’s richest persons.
Notably, money was never the key motivator for great Steve Jobs;
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful … that’s what matters to me,”
2. He Was a Product of an Unmarried Interracial Couple and Brought Up as An Adopted Child:
Steve Jobs biological father, Abdulfattah Jundali, was a Syrian Muslim while her biological mother, Joanne Schieble, was an American. They were unmarried, when her mother fell pregnant in 1954. At that time, Jobs’ father was a 23-year-old student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Later they married but Schieble’s parent were not agree to accept the marriage of their daughter with an Arab Muslim at any cost.
Steve Jobs and His Biological Father Abdulfattah Jundali
So, under their immense pressure and fearing scandal, Ms Schieble ran to San Francisco where Steven Paul Jobs, as his adoptive parents named him, was born on February 24, 1955.
Joanne-Simpson-Steve-Jobs Real Mother
Later on Paul and Clara Jobs, an Armenian couple unable to have children, adopted Steve Jobs and he grown up in their family along with his adopted sister Patti Jobs, born in 1958. The couple, unfortunately, divorced in 1962.
Abdulfattah Jandali later married Joanne Schieble and her biological sister Moan was born in 1957, whom they kept. At the age of 27, Steve Jobs discovered that he had a biological sister, the popular American novelist Mona Simpson.
Mona Simpson and Steve Jobs
Though, Steve jobs never met with her biological parents, but he had a close relationship with her sister and in 1997 he announced Ms Simpson as “one of my best friends in the world”.
3. Steve Jobs Was a Buddhist By Religion:
Steve Jobs was not a Christian denomination but he was a Buddhist by religion. Interestingly, Jobs even tried to serve as a monk while he was quiet a young guy.
After dropping from Reed College, he decided to visit India where his mind inclined to Buddha and he turned to a true Buddhist. When he came back, he even experimenting LSD, which he described a turning point of his life.
4. He Was An Assyrian by Blood:
Though the birth record of Steve Jobs suggests that he was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955 but actually, he was an Assyrian by blood since his real father Abdulfattah Jundali was a Syrian Muslim by blood.
5. He Had Dyslexia:
We were wonder why Steve Jobs was not a brilliant student and was unable to continue his studies at Reed College, though he was a great intellectual. You will also be wondered to know that the primary reason why he did not get his college degree at Reed College is because of his condition; he had dyslexia, meaning that he had a learning disability that affects his ability to read.
Interestingly, if we have a look on the history of great geniuses of the world, we would find that Albert Einstein had dyslexia too. However, we can manipulate that dyslexia is not a learning disability but in fact it is an over intellectual ability as he had 317 international patents on his credit.
6. He First Used a Computer At Age of 12:
Steve Jobs first interacted with the computing machines when he was only 12 years old. He was engineer Larry Lang from Hewlett Packard who showed him his first computer. That was the turning point of his life as he decided to live in gadgets and technological development for the rest of his life.
7. He Loved Calligraphy:
Amazingly enough, Steve Jobs first love was calligraphy. In the beginning, he was not interested in gadgets and tech devices but he was in love of calligraphy. He took the classes of calligraphy –the word of penmanship and fonts where Macintosh typefaces came from. This also reflects that Steve Jobs has a great innovative mind.
8. He Was Dropped Out from Reed Collage:
Steve Jobs -a business magnate and an icon of computer and mobile industry was not able to finish his college degree. He studied for only one semester at Reed College and straightly dropped out due to his poor performance.
9. He Worked at Apple on $1 Annual Salary:
You believe it or not, but it is the fact that Steve Jobs worked for Apple on 1$ annual salary, half dollar for management responsibilities and the other half for his technical capabilities. Actually, he earned more from Disney through his share than Apple.
10. He was a Vegetarian & Fruitarian:
Being a true Buddhist, Steve Jobs was a vegetarian and fruitarian. When he co-founded Apple Computer Incorporated on April 01, 1976 together with Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, the name of the company “Apple” was derived from his eating habits. Apple was his favorite fruit. Interestingly enough, his wife is also a vegetarian who never eat any meat or products alike and have been maintaining it through her whole life span.
