The papers are signed by Apple’s founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak as well as Ron Wayne, who left the company shortly afterward.
You will soon have a chance to own a unique slice of Apple’s early history, though it could cost you more than 1,000 new MacBook Pros.
Apple’s founding papers, which created the Apple Computer Company in 1976, could fetch as much as $4 million at a new auction. The papers are signed by Apple’s founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne, who received 45%, 45%, and 10% stakes respectively. If you haven’t heard of Ron Wayne, he is thought to have sold his Apple stake for $800 just twelve days after putting the papers together, and never returned to the company, followed by another $1,500 payment roughly a year later.
Had Wayne retained his entire 10% stake, it could be worth as much as $400 billion today at current market valuations, though issues like stock issuances make numbers hard to estimate.
