Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak stays hospitalized in Mexico Metropolis following a “well being downside” whereas he was within the metropolis to talk at a enterprise convention
ByFABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Related Press
November 9, 2023, 12:34 PM
File – Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak speaks on the Novathon Convention in Budapest, Hungary, on Oct. 30, 2019. Wozniak stays hospitalized in Mexico Metropolis on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2023, following a “well being downside” whereas he was within the metropolis to talk at a enterprise convention. (Marton Monus/MTI through AP, File)
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MEXICO CITY — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak remained hospitalized Thursday in Mexico Metropolis following a “well being downside” whereas he was within the metropolis to talk at a enterprise convention, in accordance with a supply near the convention who requested anonymity as a result of they weren’t licensed to discuss the incident.
Wozniak, 73, had been scheduled to talk on the World Enterprise Discussion board in Mexico Metropolis, a two-day gathering billed because the world’s most necessary administration occasion. Different marketed audio system had been Carly Fiorina, the previous CEO of Hewlett-Packard and Muhammad Yunus, a pioneer in microfinance who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The convivial Wozniak, who teamed up with the late Steve Jobs to discovered Apple in 1976, had been scheduled because the convention’s closing speaker Wednesday afternoon.
Wozniak suffered the “well being downside” shortly earlier than he was scheduled to reach on the occasion, the supply mentioned, declining to element what the well being downside was.
“At this second I perceive that he’s steady,” the supply mentioned, including that the details about his standing had come from relations.
The ABC Santa Fe Hospital the place Wozniak was taken mentioned it could not present any data.
Wozniak left Apple in 1985 to pursue a variety of different curiosity, however has remained a fervent supporter of the corporate and a expertise evangelist. Extra lately he has pursued a spread of different pursuits together with competing on “Dancing With The Stars” in 2009 and taking part as a choose in a web based video present referred to as “Unicorn Hunters” that assesses concepts from entrepreneurs vying to construct startups probably value $1 billion or extra.
Whereas dabbling in different startups, Wozniak additionally has helped hold alive the reminiscence of his longtime buddy, Jobs, who died of most cancers in 2011.
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Related Press author Michael Liedtke in San Francisco contributed to this report.
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