Lesser known facts about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs

Late Apple CEO and co-founder, Steve Job, is one of the most celebrated tech entrepreneurs in the world. He has been widely appreciated for the way he ideated and modelled the company. Here are nine facts about Steve Jobs you probably didn't know.

• Despite his reputation of a technology innovator, Apple mastermind Steve Jobs never wrote even a single line of programming code for any of his Apple inventions.

• The first iPod was originally much bigger than what came into the market, To demonstrate his point to make the device more compact, Jobs dropped the iPod in a fish tank. Pointing at the bubbles that rose to the surface from the device, he told his engineers that these air bubbles indicated that there was still space in the device to cram the instruments and engineering closer together.

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• Steve Jobs did not entertain tardiness, and expected all his employees to be right on time. Incidentally, one of his employees, a single mother, showed up late to work because her car broke down, Jobs gave her a set of keys to a brand new Jaguar with the insistence that she should never be late to work again.

• In order to dedicate most of his time to Apple, Steve Jobs adopted a vegan diet, where he just ate two kinds of fruits for weeks together. He changed his diet so that the fruitarianism will eliminate his need to shower daily.

• Jobs’ attention to details was entirely a new level. In 2008, he once called a Google executive for a minor emergency. He pointed out that the shade of yellow in the logo Google wasn’t quite right, and should be fixed immediately.

• In Apple's early days as a company, an argument between Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak broke out as to who will be designated the number one on their ID badge. When Wozniak was offered number one, Jobs took the number zero due to the logic that it comes before the number one

• Steve Jobs insisted that he did not believe in modern medicines. After the diagnosis of his pancreatic cancer in 2003, jobs ignored the advice of doctors and subscribed to extreme vegan diets, utilizing herbal remedies, practising the ancient art of acupuncture, and consulting a psychic.

• To become what he did in his final days, Steve Jobs rose up from a very humble beginning. He claimed that throughout his brief time in college, Jobs was homeless and without a dormroom, often opting to sleep on the floor in his friend’s room.

• During his time in college, Jobs would obsessively collect cold-drink bottles for five cents in an effort to pay for food, and would travel seven miles across town every Sunday in order to have one good meal at the Hare Krishna temple

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