How much money did Jobs leave to lead Apple to grow and develop? Even counting his shares in Apple and Disney, the total value is close to 7 billion dollars, which is more than 40 billion dollars when converted into RMB.
But he eventually died of illness with a net worth of tens of billions, and it is a cancer that the medical community generally thinks has a good prognosis. Early detection has a high cure rate.
Rich people like Steve Jobs have another disease, but the prognosis is good. Why didn't he survive in the end? During the 10 years after his death, why did people always say "he could have survived"?
Jobs/kloc-died 0/0 years ago, but he found himself terminally ill, but he had to push it forward for another eight years. It took him eight years to die of cancer, which shows how much he suffered, and it is enough to show that he is not the most dangerous kind.
Some people may say, didn't Jobs have pancreatic cancer? It's called "the king of cancer". How can you say it's not dangerous enough
This is because pancreatic cancer is just a general term, which can be further subdivided, and Jobs suffers from a low-risk and good prognosis, called "pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor".
Although this tumor is rare, it grows slowly. If found early, the cure success rate is high. Moreover, people as rich as Jobs can be treated regardless of the cost, and the success rate is estimated to be as high as 90%. In other words, if there were no accidents, Jobs might still be alive today.
However, the accident still happened. What ultimately killed Jobs was not the powerfulness of the disease, nor the incompetence of modern technology, but his paranoia and pride.
Like many rich people, Jobs has his own doctor, and there is more than one doctor, and different doctors are responsible for different fields.
For example, he has a doctor who specializes in urinary system health. It was this doctor who accidentally discovered the tumor on Jobs' pancreas.
That was June 2003, 5438+ 10. The doctor asked Jobs to have a routine physical examination. During the imaging scan, the doctor found a shadow on his pancreas, so he suggested another targeted pancreatic examination.
But Jobs refused because he was busy. As the helm of Apple, he has too many things to do. Plus, he was only 48 years old at that time, and he was confident in his health, so he didn't take the doctor's words to heart at all.
A few days later, the doctor found Jobs again and said to him in a very serious tone, "Steve, you need to have a check-up. Very important! " "
Jobs reluctantly walked into the hospital and made a targeted examination according to the requirements of a private doctor. After the results came out, the doctors were shocked. It's really one.
Tumor, growing on the pancreas.
Because pancreatic cancer is extremely dangerous, a doctor told Jobs that he probably had only a few months to live and asked him to arrange a funeral as soon as possible.
Seeing the attitude of doctors, Jobs had to pay attention to it. That night, he asked the doctor to collect living cells with a probe and test them to determine what kind of pancreatic cancer he had.
The moment the biopsy results came out, the doctor who saw the report actually cried on the spot. He cried not because he was sad, but because he was so happy, because the report showed that Jobs was suffering from a neuroendocrine tumor. Although it also grew on the pancreas, it grew slowly and had a high cure rate.
In other words, Jobs was extremely lucky that God didn't sentence him to death!
Although the doctor thought Jobs was lucky, he immediately advised him to have surgery to remove the tumor, because if the tumor dragged on and spread, the situation would become complicated and even dangerous.
But when the doctor told Jobs this advice, he refused it as directly as he refused the examination. According to a later interview, Jobs initially refused the surgical resection simply because he "didn't want them (doctors) to cut my body open".
It is this ridiculous reason that caused Jobs to miss the best treatment time.
His illness was discovered in June, 5438 +2003 10. In the following months, levinson, a doctor who had a good relationship with Jobs, advised him to have an operation almost every day. In the last few times, his tone even turned to pleading, but Jobs turned a deaf ear and the two almost broke up.
Jobs is a strong man in business and a natural leader. He always gives advice and assigns tasks to others, not others.
So when the doctors kept urging him to do so, Jobs felt "insulted". He stubbornly believed that his decision was correct and completely ignored the areas he was not good at at at this time.
In the face of illness, he is no different from ordinary people. He is an out-and-out layman, but he refuses the advice of professionals again and again, and in hindsight, this is obviously pushing himself to the wall step by step.
Anyone who knows Jobs knows that he is stubborn, and it is this personality that makes him great. However, it may be ok to put such a character in managing a company or making inventions. If it is used to deal with one's own health problems, it will be very ridiculous and even doomed to tragedy.
However, Jobs didn't even think about it. While refusing to undergo surgery, he insisted on some "conservative treatments", such as trying to make the tumor disappear through diet. For a time, he drank carrot juice until his face turned yellow, because he believed that carrot juice could eliminate tumors.
Jobs is a "vegetarian", and there is no problem with this belief and it will not cause harm to health. However, in the face of the disease, he chose to use folk remedies with unknown curative effect instead of scientific medical methods, which was very unwise, and he finally tasted the bitter fruit.
Because of Jobs' stubbornness, the operation was postponed until July 2004. The scan showed that the tumor in his body had obviously grown and probably spread, so Jobs had to face the reality and underwent surgery.
But unfortunately, this operation did not completely eliminate the cancer cells in his body, which also means that Jobs will continue to fight the disease for the next seven years until the last day of his life.
At the peak, Jobs held the shares of Apple 1 1.3%, and he also held a considerable number of Disney shares. These two items alone add up to billions of dollars.
In the face of death, everyone will have the desire to survive, but as long as there is a glimmer of hope, Jobs will not give up, even if it costs millions or even hundreds of millions.
According to public information, Jobs had a "liver transplant" operation in 2009, which most people could not afford. Moreover, medical expenses in the United States have always been famous for their high cost, but for Jobs, who has tens of billions of assets, millions of surgical expenses are just nine Niu Yi hairs.
Unfortunately, this operation didn't save his life, but only made him live for two more years. Judging from his physical condition at that time, this should also be a pretty good result. After all, if he wasn't rich enough, Jobs probably wouldn't live to 20 1 1 year.
In the last year of his life, Jobs rarely appeared in public. He is a man with strong personality and cares about his image. At that time, he was terminally ill, but he was out of shape.
After all hopes were dashed, Jobs finally regretted it. He admits that his original decision was stupid, but God can't give him another chance, even though he used to be "God's darling".
20 1 1654381October 5, Jobs' heart stopped beating forever, Apple lost its helm, and the world lost a great genius.
Today, with the average life expectancy approaching 80 years, Jobs' 56-year life is really too short. If he can live a few more years, what major changes will his genius and wisdom bring to the world?
The tragedy of Jobs once again warned us that we can't "escape medical treatment". Even if you are a genius, you can't master all fields. Always remember that there is no difference between a genius and an ordinary person in those fields where he is not good at.