14 DAY TRIAL // Word on the web is that Steve just got a bit thinner. It's already common knowledge that Apple's CEO is suffering from a rare, but curable form of cancer, which made him lose a lot of weight in the past as well. Jobs has apparently lost more weight, but are we really going into that he-should-tell-investors deal again?
Steve Job's speech during the June 2005 commencement address at Stanford University revealed that, a year back, he had been diagnosed with cancer. "I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas," Jobs told the crowd. "The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months."
The moving story goes on with Jobs explaining to folks how he had a biopsy later that evening, "where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor," Apple's CEO explained. "I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery, and, thankfully, I am fine now," Jobs concluded, much to the audience's delight.
Ralph Whitworth is an activist institutional investor. He served as chairman of Waste Management when the company's CEO was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor. He told Fortune mag that the situation, in Jobs' case, was "a very tricky one," as he put it. Nevertheless, in his opinion, Apple should have disclosed the CEO's illness as soon as it was revealed, even if the law didn't force them to: "Good governance has nothing to do with following the minimum standards," Whitworth said. "Executives should announce before they're going into major surgery. Yes, your stock will go down. [But] how would the shareholders have felt if they said he died on the operating table?"
So, hopefully, that gives you an idea of how people perceive Steve's (for all we know) eating habits. What do you think are the reasons for Steve Jobs' slimmer figure?