6 Personal Things You Didn’t Know about Steve Jobs

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Steven Paul Steve Jobs Aka Jobs or Steve Jobs was a very successful businessman born in February 24, 1955 and died in October 5, 2011.

His popularity is mainly connected with his business as being the Founder and CEO of Apple. But he has this charismatic personality that took a street guy from a garage into an office that is considered to be one of the most influential, powerful and successful business in history.

His death left a lot of people in agony and pain and alot of people became curious to know about Steve’s background, where he came from, how he was brought up and other personal things that he was associated with.

In this blog post, we collected 6 personal things you didn’t know about Steve Jobs.

Syrian:

What ? He was an American, as we all know him. Yes, he was but he was basically “Half Syrian”. His father name is Abdul Fattah Jandali and he is a restaurant and caino owner in Reno, Nevada. An astonishing fact is that they only met once in life by accident.

Adopted:

Steve mother was an American named Joanne Carole Schieble, I mean original biological mother. Steve Grand Father had objection over the marriage and thus steve was put for adoption.

The parents who adopted Steve named Clara and Paul Jobs.

Religion:

Steve was a restless man and so he decided along with his roommate to visit India for a spiritual journey. They went to see a Hindu guru (Neem Karoli Baba) but was told upon arrival that he passed away. Steve started this journey in 1974 and roam across the country for seven months. It’s been said, upon his arrival back to states, he was wearing Indian clothes with a shave head.

He did was influenced during his stay and we can say, he became partially a Buddhist.

Homeless:

No doubt, he was a legend and he was running the most successful business of all times but this is true that the man was a street boy, a homeless street boy.

Meet sister at 30:

What a life. As I mentioned above, Steve met his father by accident, he also met his sister in 1985, exactly after 30 years. Steve sister is a famous writer and after they meet became very good friends and meet each other almost daily.

Pescetarian:

Steve was Pescetarian, he never had meat and it’s been said, he was so fanatic about it that he had bad relations with companies like McDonald.
The above posts were related to some of his personal life , in future we will be writing about apple and steve role and how he took a garage business into a giant company.