Fun Facts
- "His attention to detail was unlike anyone had ever seen. He frantically called a Google Engineer on a Sunday with an emergency: the gradient on their O was slightly off" - BOOMSbeat.com.
- "'Let's hide our porsches.' When an investor was coming to visit NEXT one day in the early 90s, Steve Jobs ran off to the parking lot to take his Porsche out of sight and had his employee Randy Adams do the same with his porsche. 'He's gonna think we've got money if he sees the Porsche's,' Jobs said" - BOOMSbeat.com.
- "When asked why he had named his company Apple, he said: 'Because it came before Atari in the phone book.' Jobs worked for Atari before starting Apple and he also said that he likes apples and that they had to come up with a name by 5 o'clock that day" - BOOMSbeat.com.
- "Jobs lied to Steve Wozniak. When they made Breakout [the video game] for Atari, Wozniak and Jobs were going to split the pay 50-50. Atari gave Jobs $5000 to do the job. He told Wozniak he got $700 so Wozniak took home $350" - BOOMSbeat.com.
- While working at Atari, Jobs was actually put on the night shift because of his hygiene or lack thereof. It is said that he never bathed, and would walk around the office in his bare feet" - BOOMSbeat.com.
- "The excitement you feel when opening up a new Apple product is not by accident. Jobs was passionate about packaging and [had] a group in the company [that] obsessively open[ed] boxes in an attempt to get the right emotional response" - BOOMSbeat.com.