Steve Jobs Facts

Steve Jobs was half Arab.

Steve Jobs' annual salary was $1, just enough to keep company health benefits.

Two of Apple's three founders worked at Atari before starting Apple. Steve Jobs was a technician there, and Steve Wozniak helped design the circuitry for Breakout as a contractor.

Steve Jobs never wrote a single line of programming code.

Steve Jobs' biological father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, managed a popular Mediterranean restaurant near San Jose. Jobs ate there a couple of times without knowing the owner was his father. Jandali didn't know either. Years later, when Jobs' biological sister Mona Simpson tracked Jandali down, he casually boasted: "Even Steve Jobs used to eat there. He was a great tipper." That's how Jobs found out.

Some tech CEOs intentionally use the same outfit every day—like Steve Jobs’ black turtleneck—not out of laziness, but to minimize decision fatigue and boost creativity.

Steve Jobs had to follow an exact sequence of taps during the first iPhone demo in 2007 — one wrong move and it would crash on live TV. Apple engineers called it the "golden path." They had backup phones ready backstage to swap in if he slipped. The most important product launch in tech history was held together with duct tape.