Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is ‘back home in California and feeling good’ after suffering a minor stroke in Mexico
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak flew back to California and said he was “back home and feeling good” after being hospitalized in Mexico for a mini-stroke.
Wozniak, 73, flew back to Los Gatos, California, on Thursday, a day after suffering a mini-stroke during his trip to Mexico City, where he was scheduled to speak at the World Business Forum.
He said: ‘I’m back home and feeling good’, in an interview with the New York Times while you wait for dinner to be served.
Wozniak, a technology entrepreneur worth more than $100 million, said he felt dizzy Wednesday morning and then had dizziness before going to the hospital, where an MRI scan showed he had a “small but real stroke” had.
The Apple co-founder was scheduled to speak at the World Business Forum in Mexico City on Wednesday at 4:20 p.m. local time, a two-day gathering billed as the world’s premier management event.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (right) pictured with Steve Jobs (left) in 1988. Wozniak, 73, flew back to California and said he was “back home and feeling good” after being admitted to Mexico for a small stroke
Wozniak (pictured with his wife), a technology entrepreneur worth more than $100 million, said he felt dizzy Wednesday morning and then had dizzy spells before going to the hospital, where an MRI showed he had a ‘ small but real stroke’.
CNN reported that Wozniak was hospitalized around 3 p.m. on Wednesday and collapsed just before his scheduled speech.
The sociable Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with the late Steve Jobs in 1976, was scheduled as the conference’s closing speaker on Wednesday afternoon.
Other advertised speakers included Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, and Muhammad Yunus, a microfinance pioneer who received the Nobel Peace Prize.
He experienced ‘the dizziness’ while sitting at the computer.
His wife reportedly insisted that he go to the hospital. Members of Wozniak’s team reportedly flew to Mexico City on Wednesday to check in with him, the newspaper said. TMZ report.
The hospital performed an MRI scan, he said, and determined that he had “had a small capillary leak, as well as symptoms of dizziness.”
He said the worst part of the experience was that “the hospital had to leave him on a stretcher for 24 hours and wouldn’t let him roll onto his side.”
He will also have to cancel trips to Dubai, Medellin, Columbia and Baku, Azerbaijan, where he was scheduled to speak on several occasions.
“That’s life for me in the busy times,” Wozniak said of the trip.
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He said the worst part of the experience was that “the hospital required him to remain on a stretcher for 24 hours and not roll him on his side.”
The Apple co-founder was scheduled to speak at the World Business Forum in Mexico City on Wednesday at 4:20 p.m. local time, a two-day gathering billed as the world’s premier management event.
Wozniak is a computer scientist best known as one of the founders of Apple and the inventor of the Apple II computer.
He met the late Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, while in college, and the pair formed Apple Computer on April 1, 1976, which is now simply Apple and run by CEO Tim Cook.
Their company pioneered personal computing and grew into the world’s most valuable company, known for the design and functionality of a range of consumer electronics, including laptop and desktop computers, and the mobile iPhone.
Wozniak left Apple in 1985 to pursue a wide range of other interests, but he has remained a staunch supporter of the company and a technology evangelist.
More recently, he has pursued a range of other interests, including competing on ‘Dancing With The Stars’ in 2009
He also participated as a judge on an online video show called “Unicorn Hunters,” which judges ideas from entrepreneurs competing to build startups potentially worth $1 billion or more.
While dabbling in other startups, Wozniak has also helped keep alive the memory of his old friend Jobs, who died of cancer in 2011.
Despite his fame as a co-founder of Apple, he said in 2018 that building computers was never for the financial reward.
‘I wasn’t involved with money in any way – finance – to this day I’ve never used the Apple stock app, I don’t buy or sell stocks.
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Wozniak even sold almost all of his bitcoin holdings when the price rose.
‘I don’t want that kind of care in my life. Part of my happiness is that I don’t have to worry.’
He then said that his simple formula for a successful life is his happiness, something he discovered when he was twenty years old.