Not only the founder of Apple Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak alone. One name that is perhaps not so well known is Ron Wayne was with the two figures above jointly initiated the founding of Apple.
Yes, in 1976, Wayne was with Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple who was then still a small company. But two weeks later, Wayne's sold 10% ownership stake for USD 2300 and re-focus on his old job at the company Atari.
Wayne apparently could not bear to develop the company from scratch. In addition, Wayne has been feeling too old and a bit traumatized by the never failing business. He was about 20 years older than Jobs and Wozniak.
Wayne which is currently 77 years old admitted to not regret even if he survived and still holds shares in Apple, he will be one of the richest people in the world. For now, Apple is worth about USD 350 billion.
Jobs was the one who invited Wayne to co-founding Apple and offered him 10% of the shares at the time. Wayne is considered an adult can mediate if there is contention between Jobs and Wozniak are still young and ambitious.
"He has the mentality is more mature and have a strong formula of what happened and how the company runs," Wozniak said about Wayne.
"I'm very very happy to participate to be part of something that actually has a very big expectations and something that I think will be really successful," Wayne said about his participation in the Apple.
After selling its shares, Wayne remains an adviser to Apple. He had helped design the Apple logo at the time. No wonder if Wayne was so lost when Jobs dies.
"With so much potential and creativity in front of her magnitude, we can only imagine what might be out of his mind if he lived 20 years longer," he added, quoted by the Sydney Morning Herald and quoted on Monday (10/10/2011) .
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