1.Biography of Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California to his biological parents, Joanne Schieble and John Jandali, when both were unmarried and still in college. Their relationship was opposed because the mother's family did not approve of her relationship, a Catholic, with Jandadi, a Muslim. Schieble had to give away her son because she wanted to preserve the family's honor. Jobs was then adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, whom he always considered his real parents.
From an early age, Jobs was encouraged by his father to be exposed to the mechanical world. He spent many hours with his father, dismantling and assembling electronics in the family garage. Jobs attended Cupertino High School and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. After school, he often went to Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California and was hired to work with Steve Wozniak as a temporary employee. In 1972, Jobs graduated from high school and enrolled at Reed College, which is one of the top 10 colleges in the United States in Portland, Oregon. He dropped out after six months and spent the next 18 months taking creative classes at Reed.
In the fall of 1974, Jobs returned to California and began attending Homebrew Computer club meetings with an Atari engineer, Wozniakz, while also accumulating money for a pilgrimage in India.
In 1974, Jobs traveled to India with Daniel Kottke, his Reed friend and later Apple's first employee, to seek spiritual enlightenment from Neem Karoli Baba at the Kainchi temple. Unfortunately, the mystic monk died almost a year earlier. He then traveled throughout the northern states of India for the next seven months to come in contact with Buddhism. When he returned to America, he wore traditional Indian clothes and went bald.
On March 18, 1991, Jobs married Laurene Powell and later on had three children. He also has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, with his ex-girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan.
Steve Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011, after 8 years of persistent fighting with pancreatic cancer.

2.What is the IQ of Steve Jobs?

Steve Jobs has an IQ of 160, which is on par with Albert Einstein and Bill Gates. This score is estimated based on Jobs who said that as a ninth grader, he passed the same proficiency test as a sophomore in high school. He was clearly a man of superior intelligence, regardless of his exact IQ. This makes sense when Gates said, “software is an IQ business.”
Former Apple employee, Andy Hertzfield, said that Jobs and Gate both thought they were smarter than the other. Jobs thought Gates was a bit less intelligent than he was, especially in image and style. Meanwhile, Gates looked down on Jobs because he could not program.
Jobs once explained his own definition of intelligence. According to him, a smart person means he or she has the ability to minimize everything around. “A lot of [what it means to be smart] is the ability to zoom out, like you’re in a city and you could look at the whole thing from the 80th floor down at the city. And while other people are trying to figure out how to get from point A to point B reading these stupid little maps, you could just see it in front of you. You can see the whole thing.” The difference between smart people and less intelligent people is that smart people make complicated things simple and small. Jobs also added that smart people often create thoughts and associations that only they can understand. It is difficult for outsiders to grasp, because smart ones developed the skill of overarching to have a better view of the big picture.
If divided scientifically, there are 8 different types of intelligence, but there are 2 factors that need attention. The first is the ability to memorize knowledge. Accumulating knowledge needs to go hand in hand with the application of effective case handling, which is the second factor, practical interoperability. In fact, smart people are those who have enough experience to solve a dilemma in a unique way.
This is similar to how Jobs applied his knowledge of calligraphy to Apple's early typography creation process. He and other scientists believe that the more people experience, the more likely they are to link old knowledge into different contexts. “You can make connections that just seem obvious cause you can see the whole thing. But the key thing is that if you're gonna make connections which are innovative then you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does. Or else, you're going to make the same connections and then you won't be innovative. So… get different experiences than the normal course of events,” according to the former Apple CEO with an IQ of 160.

3.Steve Jobs’ Career and Achievements

Jobs' first real computer job was as a technician at Atari, Inc. in Los Gatos, California, in 1973. Together with Wozniak, he developed a circuit board that removed about 50 chips from the machine thus creating a similar compactness.
Jobs and Wozniak had learned enough to try their hand at building personal computers. Using Jobs' home garage as a base of operations, the team produced 50 fully assembled computers that were sold to a local Mountain View electronics store called the Byte Store. This event encouraged the duo to form the Apple Company on April 1, 1976. Initially, the company was primarily intended to sell circuit boards. In the same year, Wozniak invented the Apple I, II computer.
In the following years, Apple rapidly expanded as the personal computer market began to thrive. In 1981, Apple offered shares publicly. In 1983, the company entered the Fortune 500. In the same year, Apple convinced PepsiCo's president, John Sculley, to become its CEO. In 1984, Jobs designed the first Macintosh, which was the first personal computer to use a graphical user interface. In 1985, he resigned and left Apple. After leaving the company, he founded NeXT Inc., which is famous for its technical strengths, especially the object-oriented software development system (WebObjects) used in the Apple Store and later iTunes store.
In 1986, Jobs bought a computer graphics film production company and renamed it Pixar. Toy Story, A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo were very successful animated films that brought Jobs a lot of profit as well as respect.
In 1996, when Apple acquired NeXT Inc., Jobs returned to the company he co-founded as an executive. In 1998, the Apple iMac was introduced to the world. By the end of that year, the iMac became America's best-selling personal computer.
In 2001, Jobs began reinventing Apple for the 21st century. The company entered the music world with the introduction of the iPod, iTunes, and the iTunes Store. The device was an instant success and boosted the company's sales and reputation by leaps and bounds.
In 2005, with Disney's purchase of Pixar, Jobs became the largest shareholder of Walt Disney Company with about 7% of the company's shares. In 2007, he broke into the mobile phone business with the launch of the iPhone. During his lifetime, Jobs received a number of awards including the National Medal of Technology and Innovation and the Award for Public Service. He was inducted into the 2007 California Hall of Fame. In the same year, Fortune magazine named Jobs the most powerful individual in the business field.
In 2009, Fortune magazine honored Jobs as CEO of the decade. In 2010, he ranked 17th on Forbes' list of the World's Most Powerful People. In the same year, he was named Person of the Year by Financial Times magazine.
In 2011, Forbes estimated the majority of Jobs' net worth at between $6.5 billion and $7 billion from his sale of Pixar to Walt Disney in 2006. However, if Jobs did not sell his shares at Apple in 1985 when he left the company, his net worth would be US$36 billion.
Steve Jobs not only left the world with technological masterpieces but also lessons about a positive attitude, passion, and tireless efforts.

4.15 surprising facts about Steve Jobs you probably did not know

• Jobs did not like high school and had a pretty low 2.65 GPA. He was often bullied at Crittenden High School in Mountain View after being transferred there in sixth grade. He became a social loner and eventually gave his parents an ultimatum that if they did not get him out of Crittenden, he would drop out of school
• Unable to stay in the dorms during college, Jobs had to sleep on the floor of his friends' rooms and return Coke cans for 5 cents to buy food. He walked more than 10 km along the city weekly to the charity kitchen at Hare Krishna temple
• According to the FBI's classified report, an acquaintance said Jobs used marijuana and LSD while he was in college. He also tried psychedelics after returning to the US. He later told a reporter that LSD was one of the "two or three most important things" he did in his life
• Jobs and Wozniak named the company Apple because both were huge fans of The Beatles. The band owns a record label, Apple Records

• Jobs owns more than 300 patents
• Jobs was obsessed with fonts and calligraphy. The reason Apple has so many different fonts is because he used to take a calligraphy class in college
• Apple was founded after Wozniak showed the personal computer he had invented to Jobs, who offered to sell it for a profit. The company initially had three partners, Jobs, Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, but Wayne sold his 10% stake just two weeks later. Wayne is also credited with creating the first Apple logo
• Jobs was an advisor to Google founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. He also advised former Vice President of Google, Vic Gundotra, to change the yellowness of the letter O because it had the wrong shade. Ironically, he was furious when Google created the Android operating system to compete with Apple's iPhone
• Jobs was forced to resign from Apple after his plan to get rid of CEO John Sculley was leaked. His vision of the Macintosh closed-architecture differed greatly from Sculley's open-architecture computers such as the Apple II, creating great discord within the company. Many people left, including Wozniak, who was not satisfied with the way Jobs was handling the company
• Perhaps the most familiar image of Jobs in the public eye is when he wears jeans and a black turtleneck shirt. That image has been around since the 1992s, probably because of the comfort that the outfit brings. However, according to another source, famous designer Issey Miyake has designed for him more than a hundred models of this black shirt. He also asked Miyake to design uniform vests for Apple employees. However, this idea was opposed by the staffs

• For a long time, Jobs searched for his biological parents in secret because he did not want to hurt his adoptive parents. He contacted Joanne Schieble after receiving permission from his adoptive father, Paul, following the death of his adoptive mother, Clara. Soon after he left Apple, he met his biological mother, who apologized to him that she had to put him up for adoption
• Jobs is not a vegetarian, but he also does not eat any meat other than seafood
• Jobs' shares at Disney are more valuable than at Apple, as he sold a lot of his Apple stock in the 90s and owned less than 1% at the time of his death
• When he was young, Jobs once dated John Baez, a famous American folk singer
• According to his sister Mona Simpson, his last words were 'Oh wow' before his death on October 5, 2011. He was buried in an unmarked grave at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto California governor Jerry Brown declares Sunday, October 16, 2011 'Steve Jobs Day'

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