13 Facts you didn't know about Steve Jobs
#12 Steve Jobs wanted to be a poet.
Steve Jobs once admitted to former Apple CEO, John Scully that had he not started Apple, he wanted to move to Paris to be a poet. His poems probably would have been good, but we're glad he went down the Apple path!
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13:
Jobs only had one request for his biography.
Steve Jobs was totally fine with the idea of a biography, he only had one request: an awesome cover. We understand. Having sexy products deserves having a sexy cover!
12:
Steve Jobs wanted to be a poet.
Steve Jobs once admitted to former Apple CEO, John Scully that had he not started Apple, he wanted to move to Paris to be a poet. His poems probably would have been good, but we're glad he went down the Apple path!
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He left Christianity at age 13.
After asking his Sunday school teacher if God knew what would happen to the starving children on the cover of LIFE magazine, he never went back to church or practiced Christianity again.
10:
Thanks to drugs.
Steve Jobs smoked pot when he was 15 years old and tried LSD before he had graduated high school. According to him, LSD was a "profound experience, one of the most important things in my life."
9:
At first, Jobs was against apps.
Initially, Steve Jobs was against the idea of apps. It took a bunch of phone calls from a board member to finally change his mind. Good thing he did! Apps are one of Steve Jobs's best inventions yet!
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Who's on Steve Jobs's iTunes Playlists?
Steve Jobs had over 15 Bob Dylan albums in his iTunes! In addition to Bob, he had a bunch of Yo-Yo-Ma albums. He only had one book downloaded on his iPad2 and that was 'An Autobiography of a Yogi'.
7:
Anyone can be replaced but Ive.
Steve Jobs said that he found anyone to be replaceable except for the Apple product designer, Jonathan Ive. He mentioned that Ive was his "spiritual partner".
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Steve Jobs never sugar coated anything.
When asked for some advice, Steve Jobs told Larry Page of Google like it was. He said Google was turning into Microsoft in that they had too many mediocre products. He told Page to keep 5 products and get rid of the rest.
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Jobs was bummed about the iPad response.
After the iPad was launched, consumers did not take it the way that Jobs had expected them to. He said he received hundreds of emails a day in complaint. He also added that he felt depressed due to the negative response. No worries, the iPad grew on us all!
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Jobs met his biological father without knowing it!
Steve Jobs was adopted and never had a relationship with his father. However, he did frequent his father's restaurant and met him without knowing it. Later on, Jobs' biological sister met their father and he told her, "I wish you could have seen me when I was running a bigger restaurant… Everybody used to come there… Even Steve Jobs used to eat there. Yeah, he was a great tipper."
3:
Jobs gave Clinton some needed advice.
During the Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton scandal, Bill Clinton received advice from Steve Jobs. Jobs advised him, "I don't know if you did it, but if so, you've got to tell the country."
2:
Steve regretted not having surgery.
In 2004, Steve Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He opted not to have surgery. He didn't like the idea of being opened up. Later, he explained his regret to Walter Isaacson.
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Jobs told CEO Scully he thought he would die early.
"We all have a short period of time on this earth. We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young."
