10% Apple shares were once sold for a pittance

Every self-respecting geek knows, что компанию Apple основали Steve Woznyato andСтив Джобс. Actually the third co-founder of the company, went down in history as the world's biggest blockhead

Ronald Wayne, one of the founding fathers of Apple

Чудака этого зовут Ronald Wayne, him now 78 years, he lives in the American city of Pahrump and earns a living by selling old coins. Mr Wayne has been an inventor all his life, on his account more 50 patents, but none of them brought him the desired wealth. IN 1976 Wozniak and Jobs persuaded Wayne to co-found Apple's up-and-coming corporation.. However, Ronald Wayne left the founders after 11 days after the creation of the company. He sold his share for only 800 Dollars, and then it seemed to him a very profitable deal - from the very first day Wayne did not believe in the future success of Yabloko. Experts have calculated: Wayne's mistake cost him 30 billion dollars, that is how much his share would be worth today.

The moment of giving the gift

Nevertheless, the inventor managed to make his considerable contribution to the development of "Apple": he became the creator of the first company logo.

This logo had nothing to do with the current apple.. The trademark represented an engraving, depicting Isaac Newton, sitting under an apple tree, over whose head a ripe apple hangs. Как нетрудно догадаться, the physicist is pictured a second before his legendary insight.

Remarkably, As for 2011 of the year Ronald Wayne did not own a single Apple-branded device, an impoverished inventor simply could not afford to buy such expensive equipment. IN 2011 году на одной из «яблочных» конференций в Брайтоне Арал Белкан прилюдно подарил Рональду Уэйну iPad 2 «за заслуги перед компанией Apple».

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