10 SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT STEVE JOBS Steve Jobs will long be remembered for his technological innovations that changed millions of lives. But here are some little-known facts about Apple’s former CEO. Everyone knows Steve Jobs, the Apple ‘guru’ But what about some personal facts about him? 1. He tried LSD: He reportedly said it was “One of the two or three most important things I have done in my life.” 2. He dated Joan Baez: Jobs dated the folk singer when he was in his 20′s. 3. He was a vegetarian: PETA praised Jobs for his vegetarianism and his support of animals. 4. He saved Pixar: Jobs purchased the company from George Lucas’ LucasFilm for $5M in 1986. The first film produced by Pixar under Jobs was the critically acclaimed “Toy Story.” 5. He was Disney’s largest shareholder: He became Disney’s largest shareholder when the company bought Pixar in 2006. 6. He was offered an internship with Hewlett- Packard … in eighth grade: As an eighth-grader, he called William Hewlett, co- founder of Hewlett-Packard, to inquire about a part missing from a frequency counter he was assembling, the New York Times reports. Hewlett reportedly spoke to Jobs for 20 minutes, then offered him a bag of parts and a summer internship. 7. He and Steve Wozniak originally sold “blue boxes”: The duo reportedly built so-called “blue boxes” that could trick phones into allowing users to make free calls to anywhere in the world. They reportedly raised a total of $6,000. 8. He was homeless: “I didn’t have a dorm room,” he said in a commencement address given at Stanford in 2005, “so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.” 9. He patented the glass staircase in the Apple Store: He is listed among the group of inventors for 317 Apple patents. 10. He drove without a license plate for years: Jobs drove his 2007 Mercedes-Benz SL55 for years with no official license plate, just a barcode, according to USA Today. M@ñtHzzz...
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:24:30 +0000
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