Shortly after being shooed out of Apple, Jobs applied to fly on the Space Shuttle as a civilian astronaut (he was rejected) and even considered starting a computer company in the Soviet Union.Eventually he rejoined Apple as CEO in 1997 (and revitalized the failing company). Despite the fallout, he later recognized the coup as a blessing in disguise, as it gave him a chance to experiment creatively and purchase an animation studio, which would later be known as Pixar. Jobs was pushed out of his own company in 1985.Don't worry, there was no devil worshipping going on-Jobs and Wozniak just wanted the Apple I to cost one-third more than wholesale ($500). The original Apple I computer was priced at $666.66.Wayne sold his 10 percent stake just two weeks after partnering with Jobs and Wozniak for only $800 (talk about regrets). There was actually a third founder of Apple-Ronald Wayne, who even designed Apple's first logo.He rarely showered and would walk around barefoot in the Atari offices. Jobs was moved to the night shift when working at Atari due to complaints about his hygiene.Although Atari gave Jobs $5,000 for the game, Jobs told Wozniak they got $700, leaving Wozniak to take home $350 while Jobs pocketed the other $4,650. When the pair first created the Breakout game for Atari, they planned on splitting the pay 50-50. Jobs stole from partner and co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak.Jobs has called experimenting with LSD as "one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life.".He spent seven months traveling around India, experimenting with psychedelic drugs and eventually adopting the practices of Zen Buddhism.Jobs admitted he never enjoyed school structure and preferred to learn in unconventional ways.
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He slept on his friends' dorm room floors, returned Coke bottles for money, and survived off free meals from the local Hare Krishna temple. While unofficially attending classes, Jobs struggled to get by.One class Jobs audited was a calligraphy course, which he says was instrumental in the future Apple products' attention to typography and font.He was an official college dropout, but continued his education by informally auditing classes.Jobs was a pescetarian, meaning he ate no meat except for fish.Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak met in high school-Wozniak was 18 and Jobs was just 13.The biological parents found out that neither Clara nor Paul Jobs had ever graduated from college, but the adoption went through when it was promised that Steve Jobs would receive a university education (funny considering that Jobs went on to become a college dropout). Jobs's biological parents had one mandate-that Jobs be adopted by two college-educated people.His biological father was Syrian and his mother was American. Steve Jobs was adopted shortly after being born.
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