Apple's third founder refuses to submit to regrets
The most interesting Apple story you've never heard.
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...,7076634.story
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It's usually past midnight when Ron Wayne, co-founder of Apple Inc. ? colossus of the tech world, and Silicon Valley's most adored franchise ? leaves his home here and heads into town. Averting his eyes from a boneyard of abandoned mobile homes, he drives past Terrible's Lakeside Casino & RV Park, then makes a left at the massage parlor built in the shape of a castle.
When he arrives at that night's casino of choice, Wayne makes a beeline for the penny slot machines. If it's the middle of the month and he has just cashed his Social Security check, he will keep battling the one-armed bandits until 2 a.m. Wayne is waiting to hit the jackpot, and he is long overdue.
If Ron Wayne, 76, weren't one of the most luckless men in the history of Silicon Valley, it wouldn't have turned out like this.
He was present at the birth of cool on April Fool's Day, 1976: Co-founder ? along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak ? of Apple Computer Inc., Wayne designed the company's original logo, wrote the manual for the Apple I computer, and drafted the fledgling company's partnership agreement.
That agreement gave him a 10% ownership stake in Apple, a position that would be worth about $22 billion today if Wayne had held onto it.
It's usually past midnight when Ron Wayne, co-founder of Apple Inc. ? colossus of the tech world, and Silicon Valley's most adored franchise ? leaves his home here and heads into town. Averting his eyes from a boneyard of abandoned mobile homes, he drives past Terrible's Lakeside Casino & RV Park, then makes a left at the massage parlor built in the shape of a castle.
When he arrives at that night's casino of choice, Wayne makes a beeline for the penny slot machines. If it's the middle of the month and he has just cashed his Social Security check, he will keep battling the one-armed bandits until 2 a.m. Wayne is waiting to hit the jackpot, and he is long overdue.
If Ron Wayne, 76, weren't one of the most luckless men in the history of Silicon Valley, it wouldn't have turned out like this.
He was present at the birth of cool on April Fool's Day, 1976: Co-founder ? along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak ? of Apple Computer Inc., Wayne designed the company's original logo, wrote the manual for the Apple I computer, and drafted the fledgling company's partnership agreement.
That agreement gave him a 10% ownership stake in Apple, a position that would be worth about $22 billion today if Wayne had held onto it.
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Sorry, I didn't see that. The LA Times ran the story over a week later! Anyway, for those like me who missed it the first time.
I'd heard of Ron Wayne but I never knew what happened to him. I think Steve should give him a couple thousand shares of Apple so he doesn't have to live in a rundown mobile home.