The incredible story of Steve Jobs will be told the upcoming biopic Steve Jobs, portrayed by Michael Fassbender, with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, A Few Good Men). Ahead of the film’s release, here are 13 facts you never knew about him.

He was adopted

His biological father, Abdulfattah Jandali, grew up in Syria and met his biological mother, Joanne Schieble at the University of Wisconsin. At the age of 23, they both thought it was too young to marry and having a child out of wedlock was unconventional so they gave their baby to Steve’s adoptive parents, Paul and Clara. They raised him on the promise that he would go to college.

He was bullied

In the sixth grade, Steve attended at Crittenden Middle School where he was bullied for allegedly being odd. This resulted in Steve giving his parents an ultimatum – he would drop out of school if they didn’t move. So, they moved to Los Altos in California (the birthplace of Apple) where he met fellow engineer Bill Fernandez, who introduced him to Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak.

He was a Zen Buddhist

In 1974 after working with electronics and video game company, Atari, Jobs travelled to India for 7 months in search for spiritual enlightenment. He meditated often, and was a known pescatarian – eating fish but not meat. He also liked to walk barefoot.

He was a college dropout

Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Silicon Valley, but dropped out of Reed College in Oregon because he didn’t want to spend his parent’s money. Although he did attend some classes, including calligraphy. In his 2005 commencement speech for Stanford University, Jobs stated that if he didn’t drop into that class the Mac wouldn’t have had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.

He experimented with psychedelics

Jobs experimented with LSD a few times claiming that it was a “profound experience” and “one of the most important things” in his life. He claimed it helped him to think differently.

He ripped off his partner Steve Wozniak

When Jobs worked for Atari, he had to make a circuit board for the video game Breakout. He told Wozniak that they would split the profit evenly if they could use less “TTL” chips. Jobs apparently told Wozniak that the pay out was $700 giving him $350. In fact Atari gave a sum of $5000 – which meant that Wozniak was owed $2500. Not cool.

Hewlett Packard offered Jobs a summer job

When Jobs was 12 HP founder Bill Hewlett offered him a summer job after Steve called him asking for parts for an electronics project. It was known that Jobs had a keen interest in engineering from a young age as he used to help his guardian, Paul, fix things on his workbench.

He was fired from Apple

Jobs was fired because Pepsi Executive John Sculley told the board that he was far too young. This was after Jobs recruited him. Jobs then started another project creating the NeXT computer, but sales were limited because it was too expensive. Apple purchased NeXT stock resulting in Steve returning to Apple. There is a silver lining to this story – the combination of NeXT hardware with Apple resulted in operating systems like iOS used for the iPhone.

He was one of the youngest people to make the Forbes list

Steve Jobs’ success meant that he made it on a number of Forbes lists. He was number 17 on most powerful people in 2010, 39 on the Forbes 400 rich list in 2011, and 110 on Billionaires in 2011.

He denied paternity

Jobs had a child with Chrisann Brennan (his high school girlfriend) called Lisa. Even after a DNA test proved he was the father, he still continued to deny it, claiming he was sterile. He named the computer Apple Lisa after his daughter.

He was one of the founders of Pixar

Jobs was a majority shareholder of Pixar, previously know as the Graphics Group.

He made Google change the yellow gradient in its “O”

Jobs called the former VP of Google, Vic Gundotra, and told him that second O in Google had the wrong shade of yellow and that he was going to fix it. Evidently, Steve had incredible attention to detail.

He is buried in an unmarked grave

Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003. He tried natural alternative healing such as becoming a vegan, acupuncture, and herbal remedies. He resisted medicine. Jobs died at his home in Palo Alto with his family at his side. His final words were “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”

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