A lot has been said about Steve Jobs. Sometimes we have known anecdotes about his daily life in the office or how he always wore a uniform. Or those days when he was so hungry he traded glass bottles for food. But never on how the founder of Apple he played it to his own company to pay for his lunch and that of other colleagues.
And, truth be told, it was a very simple trick to pay in the cafeterias and restaurants of the old campus of 1 Infinite Loop.
Steve Jobs invited, but not as you think
When I was eating with Steve Jobs, he insisted on having me, which I always found a little weird. Even if we were together and he ordered something quick and already made like sushi and I ordered pizza cooked in a wood oven, he would wait for me at the checkout for 10 or 15 minutes. I felt very uncomfortable.
In the end, I said to him, “Really, I can afford it, so please don’t stand there waiting for me. And he said, “Scott, you don’t understand. Do you know that to pay we have to swipe our employee card and it’s deducted from my salary? I only get paid $1 a year! Every time let me slip it in, it’s a meal.” free!” It was the billionaire trying his luck with the company he founded, a handful of dollars at a time.
The anecdote was told by Scott Forstall for Wired a few years ago and repeated by John Gruber in his Daring Fireball. AND This is a sample of the funny and at the same time smart character
Stories like this make us miss genius more than ever. An everyday Steve Jobs, who on a daily basis profited from the company he founded, saved and catapulted to worldwide fame.
Why Steve Jobs only made $1 a year
Many will wonder how it was possible for the CEO of a company like Apple to earn just $1 a year. seems crazy, a wasted opportunity to make more money. But for Steve Jobs, it made perfect sense.
When Jobs returned to the company he had co-founded in 1997, Apple was just weeks away from bankruptcy. Accepting that salary was youno way to tighten the belt and meet the challenge with moral authority. Apple couldn’t afford to pay its new CEO millions of dollars while laying off many employees.
The $1 a year salary was another way of saying he wasn’t at Apple to make more money, because he already had it.
Jobs didn’t need the money. He was already a millionaire thanks to Pixar and NeXT, which was acquired by Apple and put him in charge of the company. But he received a bundle of shares that later made him a billionaire.
It should be noted that, from 1997 to 2011, Steve Jobs received $14 in terms of salary. But its shares have gone from $17.5 million to more than $2.2 billion. It’s not bad at all.
Picture | Chris Liverani
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