Almost everyone knows Steve Jobs as the co-founder of the company AppleHe greatly contributed to the creation of revolutionary devices iPhone and iPad and many others. And although Steve Jobs He died almost seven years ago, Apple is still considered "his" company. And after all the ups and downs, she recently managed to reach another milestone - she crossed the border market value of $1 trillion. Let's take this opportunity to look at 15 interesting facts about childhood and adolescence, whose products are used by millions of people every day.
During his life, he introduced many amazing products to the world:
15. Jobs was an unwanted child
Steve Jobs was not a planned or expected child. His biological mother was Joanne Schieble, a woman from a rural family of German descent living in Wisconsin. Joanne and her family were devout Catholics, and her father was very strict about relationships with non-Catholics. Her relationship with Abdulfattah "John" Jandalih, a Muslim teacher from Syria, was not received very well.
In the summer of 1954, Joanne accompanied Abdulfattah to the city of Homs in Syria and returned two months later pregnant. They were both only 23 years old and decided that they were not yet ready for marriage. In addition, Joanne's father was dying at the time and had declared that he would disown her if she married Abdulfattah. Since abortion was not possible in the small Catholic community, Joanne was sent to San Francisca. There, she was cared for by a doctor who focused on single mothers and helped them with childbirth and subsequent matters surrounding adoption.
14. Steve was adopted
Soon after Joanne gave birth to Steve, he was put up for adoption. It was taken over by Clara and Paul Jobs. Both desperately wanted a child of their own, but since Clara could no longer have her own, they decided to adopt. This happened after nine years of their marriage in 1955. So they adopted Joanna's son and named him Steven Paul Jobs.
It is also worth noting that Joanna and Abdulfattah are notoneThey got married a year later and had another child, Mona, who became a famous writer.
13. Clara and Paul were not far behind with their adoptive parents nestali
Since Joanna wanted her child to be adopted by college-educated people, the first candidates for the doctor were a lawyer and his wife. But after Steve was born, they changed their minds and decided that they would notonec want a girl. So Steve could have been adopted by Clare and Paul. Paul had an unfinished college education and was very interested in mechanics, and his wife was an accountant. This meant that they were definitely not the couple Joanne wanted for her child. So for weeks she refused to sign the adoption papers. She changed her mind after Jobs promised to set up a savings account that would pay for Steve's college education in the future.
12. His upbringing was not easy at all
The "battle" to adopt Steve was very difficult and the Jobs were really tired of the constant struggle to keep Steve with them. It involved visits from the court and convincing Joanna that they were the right parents and would do anything for Steve, including securing a college education.
Clara later said that she was afraid to grow fond of Steve in the first six months he was entrusted to them. It would be incredibly difficult for her if they took Steve away from them. Even after they won the "fight" for it and it was assigned to them, fear still lingered in them. Moreover, his upbringing had not been easy at all, and at the age of two, Clara wondered if it was a mistake to adopt him. Sometimes she even wished she could return it.
11. He also had problems at school
Steve was a real troublemaker at school. He was bored and the teaching did not satisfy him, so he invented various pranks. Paul taught him electronics from an early age and Clara taught him to read before he started school. Steve later stated that elementary school was hard for him because all he wanted to do was read books and catch butterflies.
Soon Steve became friends with Rick Farentino. And their shared pastime? Doing kinks. For example, once they managed to change everyone at school to their combination on the bike locks. Another time they put firecrackers in the teachers' desks. Both of them were very often suspended and separated into other classes to prevent them from spending time together and making up more things like that.
10. Steve was bribed to learn
If it hadn't been for the fourth grade teacher, Imogene Teddy Hill, who knows how Steve would have fared in school. It only took her a month to figure out how to work with him and instill in him a passion for knowledge. She paid him $5 of her own money every time he completed a given exercise. She also quite often bought him teaching kits for various projects, such as building his own camera. So it's no surprise that Steve was very fond of her. He later claimed that this period of his life was really great and that he learned more in this school year than he had in his entire life. And knowing what Steve was like, that's a big compliment indeed.
9. He excelled so much in school that he had to skip two grades
And it was thanks to Imogene Hill and her methods that Steve became one of the best students in his class. His school test scores were so high they were at the level of a sophomore in high school. So the school suggested that he skip two grades so that he would continue to enjoy his studies and not get bored. However, according to his parents, it was not a good idea, but they agreed to skip one grade. As a result, he was accepted to Crittenden High School. Unfortunately, it wasn't the right move, as Steve couldn't fit in with the other older students and was constantly mocked by them.
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So, how many facts about Steve Jobs' childhood did you know? We hope that the article on this topic interested you and that you are inclined to reveal similar secrets in the days to come. The second part of these facts will be released tomorrow and is also packed full of interesting facts from Steve's childhood.
Hard to believe that Joanna was supposed to marry Abdulfattah!