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 this visionary whose products are used by millions of people every day. You have already read the first part, now we will look at the remaining 8 points of interest.
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8. He wanted to transfer to another school because of the bullying
Steve really hated Crittenden High School. It was in a poor area and many of the kids who attended the school were bullied, including Steve. It was a difficult situation and experience for him, especially at the age of 11. Nakonec couldn't stand the bullying anymore. One day he came to his parents and told them he wanted to transfer to another school, that he would never set foot in Crittenden again. His parents saw how unhappy he was and agreed. So they moved to Los Altos, and Steve started going to Cupertino Junior High. For Steve, it meant a new challenge and especially foronec bullying.
7. He contacted the co-founder of HP and even got a part-time job here
Steve's passion for electronics was constantly growing. It is said that once he was building some electronic device, but he ran out of parts. He knew that the big company Hewlett-Packard, which was located near his house, sells exactly what he needs. So he found the phone number for Billand Hewlett, the company's co-founder, and called him. Their conversation lasted about twenty minutes, and Hewlett was so impressed with Jobs that, in addition to the necessary parts, he offered him a summer job at his company. His job was to assemble frequency devices, but Jobs later said that it was just putting in screws. Nevertheless, he was pleased with the experience he had.
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6. They had an illegal business with "Woz".
Over time, Steve met another person who lived nearby. His name was Steve Wozniak, but his friends called him “Woz.” Steve was completely impressed by him, especially because he was the first person he knew who knew more about electronics than he did. At the time, Woz was attending college in Berkeley and Steve was attending Homestead High School, but the fact that they each studied in a different place didn't stop them from being friends. They even came up with a joke project involving the production and sale of so-called "blue boxes". Their owners could make long-distance calls around the world without any charges. Woz is said to have even called the Pope in the Vatican and pretended to be him. miniSecretary of State Henry Kissinger. So Steve found the ideal friend for him. Not only in electronics, but also in smarts.
5. He knew from an early age that he was adopted
Steve's adoptive parents, Clara and Paul, never made it a secret that Steve was adopted. Even he knew at an early age that they were not his biological parents. When he was six or seven years old, a girl from the neighborhood asked him if his real parents wanted him if he was adopted. This question hit Steve and he ran home with a bang. Clara and Paul reassure him and tell him that they wanted exactly him and that they chose him. Since then, Steve has never felt abandoned. To him, Clara and Paul were real parents and he never called them adoptive. Of course, he did not speak so fondly of his biological parents, often referring to them as a "sperm and egg bank"
4. He did not belong to any group at school
Steve never fit in with any group at school. He looked like a real science nerd at times:
- performed at a science fair with a silicon rectifier he built that could be driven by alternating current
- he enrolled in an electronics course but dropped out a year later
- attended meetings in the school's electronic club
- attended a meeting at Hewlett-Packard ExplorerGroup
- visited the NASA flight simulator
However, he was also interested in art and literature. He studied Shakespeare and was engrossed in classic films. He took swimming lessons for a while and later started water polo. However, he stopped doing that after his coach advised him to knee his opponents in the groin. He then decided to start playing trumpet in the school band and formed The Buck Fry Club with some friends. Because he didn't last very long at anything, he didn't really fit in anywhere and became an outsider who didn't belong anywhere.
3. His classmates thought he was strange
Perhaps because Steve didn't fit into any of the groups at school and none of his hobbies lasted very long, his classmates didn't like him much and thought he was strange. However, Steve wasn't completely alone, he had a few friends - Steve Wozniak and Billand Fernandez, whom he knew from Cupertino Junior High School. All three were introverts and to a large extent each had their own world. That's probably why they stuck together. Their common hobby - electronics - also helped. Woz was the most passionate about it, but so was Steve and Billand it was fun to lock myself in the garage and work on various projects.
2. Steve and Woz dressed up as characters from Alice in Wonderland for a job
After Steve graduated from high school in 1972, he decided it was time to find a part-time job and earn some money. For some reason, he didn't return to Hewlett-Packard and instead took a job dressing up as an Alice in Wonderland character at the Westgate department store in San Jose. Woz also needed money, so he joined Steve. The job paid them $3 an hour, 50 cents more than miniThe minimum wage at the time. Steve's girlfriend at the time also had this part-time job with them. She was dressed as Alice and both Steves took on the roles of the White Rabbit and the Hatter.
1. He was so poor that he "earned" his food by returning empty bottles
Although Steve was accepted to Reed College in Portland, Oregon, his parents couldn't afford the tuition, so he dropped out after six months. Instead of finding a part-time job, he took a typography class. There he learned about different types of letters, fonts, and artistic printing. The class was taught by Trappwas a monk and was really important to Steve. The influence of typography on Jobs later influenced the fonts on Macintosh computers.
However, at this important part of his life, Steve was completely broken. He slept on the floor of his friends' rooms, returning empty Coca Cola bottles to get money for food. He also often made the seven-mile trek to the Hare Krishna temple on Sundays. He could get free food here.
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So, I hope you enjoyed this two-part "series" about the childhood and adolescence of Steve Jobs and had a pleasant evening. Which of these interesting facts about Steve Jobs did you not know? Alternatively, do you know of others that are worth it? Write it to us in the comments!
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