Steve Jobs took $1 salary for 14 yrs as Apple CEO

Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple, who passed away on October 5, 2011, took a salary of $1 for 14 years, starting in 1997, when he was the company's interim CEO, and continued to receive the same salary after becoming its permanent CEO. Notably, Jobs voluntarily cancelled 27.5 million stock options and received 5 million restricted shares instead in 2003.