Simone Biles Shares an Honored Status With Steve Jobs Despite Her Low Net Worth Compared to Apple Inc. Founder

Simone Biles, a gymnast, has achieved amazing success in her career. With 32 medals in total from the Olympics and World Championships, Biles became the youngest winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. With her astonishing accomplishments she has built an ever-growing influence since 2016.

President Joe Biden selected 17 individuals for their extraordinary contribution, includes world peace, security, and maintaining the respect of the United States. In this, Megan Rapinoe, Gabby Giffords, Denzel Washington, and posthumously Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, were honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honors in the United States.

The tale of two legends; similarites and differences.

American inventor and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Steve Jobs was the biggest business tycoon. Before his death in 2011, he had around $10.2 billion net worth. The fun fact was that most of his come through Disney rather than Apple stocks. Before joining Apple Inc.

Steve also worked with Pixar Animation Studios as a chief executive. When Steve died, his net worth was inherited by his widow Laurene Powell Jobs. That made her one of the 20 richest people with some stocks of Disney in America.

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Meanwhile, Simone Biles has a net worth of around $16 million. She has won so many gold medals and collaborated with so many brands. Athleta, Visa, Oreo, Uber Eats, MasterClass, and Facebook Watch, among others. Even after being honored with the same title Steve Jobs and Simone Biles have too many differences.

So what made her eligible to be honored with the Presidential Medal Of Freedom?

What made Simone Biles win the medal of honor

Simone Biles has struggled a lot since her childhood. Simone has raised her voice so many times for the society, whether it’s her mother’s drugs and alcohol issue or Larry Nassar’s sexual assault times. Later, Simone opened up about Larry Nassar, a gymnastics physician in the Olympics. Where she and her teammates claimed that Larry used to assault them sexually.

The sexual assault lasted long, and there were allegations of organization covered it up. Due to her mental health, she couldn’t attend Nassar’s court trial in 2018. Ever since this, Simone Biles has always been there for children. In addition, Biles talks about mental health openly after her withdrawal from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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Simone is still building her career and has a long way ahead. Who knows how many more honors she will receive and how many golds she will secure in gymnastics.