5 Famous CEOs Who Had Weird Jobs in The Past

Richard Branson

The English businessman Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin groups which comprises more than 4000 companies. His journey as an entrepreneur started at a very young age of 16. His first venture was a magazine which was named as ‘student’. At the age of 22 he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin records and later it was known as Virgin Megastore.

The venture was a huge success and the brand grew rapidly in the 80s. During this phase he took up the job of the ‘Hit Record Producer’ and signed various famous singers and brands but he had to close the venture in 1992 in order to keep the airline business running.

Steve Jobs

Widely recognized as the pioneer of microcomputer revolution, Steve Jobs was the Co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc, the American multinational company. He was also the CEO and largest shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios, a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT Inc.

But before inventing Apple, in 1970 he and the Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak together invented a ‘blue box’ which allowed people to break in to phone systems and make free calls . Thus he initially did sell illegal telephone hacking equipments. Later he stated that this invention led to the great invention of Apple.

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