While we’re all getting ready to write our letters to Steve Jobs about their discriminatory advertising hiring practices, I saw the video above and an article about Ron Wayne, the third cofounder of Apple. It’s an interesting story. At it’s founding, Wayne owned 10% of Apple, along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who each owned 45%. After 11 days of Apple’s existence, Wayne got the others to buy him out, taking $800 in exchange for his 10%. Had he kept his share, he would have been worth $22 billion today. An engineer by trade, he is currently retired and lives off of his social security.
I think he’s got a good attitude. It’s hard to predict where an enterprise is going to go, and when you’re in the moment, it’s best to think, make a decision, and then move on. You can’t live with regrets. You make the best decision you can, and you accept it.
Speaking of people who left organizations just before those organizations hit it big, I just wiki’ed Pete Best, the original drummer of the Beatles before Ringo Starr. There’s a whole list of reasons why they fired Best, and included in those reasons were the theories that they were jealous that he was too handsome, and that he refused to do drugs with the other band members.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Best#Reasons_for_Best.27s_dismissal
Too handsome? Man, what a problem to have. And who says drugs don’t pay?
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Afterthought: Are the Beatles the only group who can call a song “I’ll get you” and not sound like stalkers?
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Glad he ahs no regrets and doesn’t look back. Reading between the lines I see some guy who is not willing to work hard or take calculated risks. I see a guy who hedges bets against himself by wasting time playing video poker. Apple probably succeeded because he was not in the way.