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' secretary told him that she was late for work because her car wouldn't start. That very afternoon, Jobs came back and threw her a set of keys to a brand new Jaguar, saying: "Here, don’t be late anymore."

Steve Jobs never wrote a single line of programming code.

Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne sold his 10% share in 1976 for $800. Today, that stake would be worth over $300 billion.

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.

The first iPhone demo in 2007 was so unstable that Apple engineers created a "golden path" - a specific sequence of actions Steve Jobs had to follow exactly during the presentation. If he deviated even slightly, the prototype would crash, so they had multiple phones ready backstage to swap in if needed.