Even more crazy when you remember why Steve Jobs left the first time, and why Apple got into trouble, and that it was Microsoft that saved them
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0806/
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Even more crazy when you remember why Steve Jobs left the first time, and why Apple got into trouble, and that it was Microsoft that saved them
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0806/
Smart or lucky? I don't think there was any way of knowing just how much Facebook would be worth then. Like all investments, there's good ones and bad ones.
i agree, there's a certain element of good fortune in such a decision but he must've had a gut feeling about it and went with it. an awful lot of people would've took the money and run.
established film stars (well, tom cruise springs to mind - think he chose this option with war of the worlds) can opt to take a share of cinema sales as opposed to a fee but this is a more calculated angle (plus the fact they're loaded anyway) though i suppose a film can always be a flop.
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non-chalet?
corrected... xD
Not my fault the iPad has stupid auto-correct sometimes...
Even more crazy when you remember why Steve Jobs left the first time, and why Apple got into trouble, and that it was Microsoft that saved them
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0806/
Left is a bit of an understatement. To be fair though, having read the biography, it seems much like without that break he wouldn't have been able to do what he did today... I know the Microsoft thing didn't go down well, but Jobs and Gates knew each other well, and had a huge amount of respect for each other, not to mention that Gates was well aware that Jobs did have a huge amount of potential....
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I'd rather be unhappy in my Ferrari though
You and me both.
I'd rather be unhappy in my Ferrari though
Tbh I wouldn't. If you had it all and you are still unhappy then there is something seriously wrong. Just look at celebrities for example. Divorces left right and centre, drug abuse. Money means nothing if you don't have the right people around you and the right attitude to life. Sitting unhappy in a ferrari is exactly the same as sitting unhappy in a golf mk1 that's falling apart.
the thing about that is, there's more chance of a ferrari falling apart than a mk 1 golf. now, if you'd have said renault 5, you'd be more realistic.
Yeah, but if my Ferrari fell apart I could afford to get it fixed, thus making me a bit happy.
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yes?
One of the members on this forum, his dad or was it his friend's dad, knew the guy who owns the Ascari race resort and Ascari and that guy asked the Dad do you want to start up a business (Think it was to do with oil).
The Dad said no and didn't like to bring it up later on in life.
The Dad said no and didn't like to bring it up later on in life.
He was worried that Apple would fail, as a co owner he was directly responsible for any debts but unlike Jobs and Wozniak he actually owned things worth money so didn't fancy the risk of the repo men turning up if Apple bombed.
He didn't help.
Who is to say whether the company would be worth as much now if Ronald Wayne had stayed on. What if he'd had an argument with Steve Jobs in 1977 and then bought Steve out.
There are far too many variables to say his $800 would be worth anywhere near that much. You can't change one piece of history and expect everything else to stay the same, especially when we're talking about a company in it's infancy.
There are far too many variables to say his $800 would be worth anywhere near that much. You can't change one piece of history and expect everything else to stay the same, especially when we're talking about a company in it's infancy.
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Didn't he sell them to Forest Gump?