Ronald Wayne

Ronald Gerald Wayne ( born May 17, 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio ) is the forgotten " third founder " of Apple (along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak ). He drew the first Apple logo and wrote the user's manual for the Apple I. With his feather is also the first shareholders' agreement, the Apple founder.

Wayne knew Jobs and Wozniak of their joint work at Atari, before they founded Apple in 1976. He received a share of Apple by 10 percent, but quickly lost confidence in the company - in particular, he feared the liability that weighed undivided on each partner. Wayne had already suffered twice with a company shipwrecked and spent two years working for the eradication of the resulting debt. He gave back his shares for $ 800 only 11 days after the founding of Apple in Jobs and Wozniak and again worked at Atari; later, he received $ 1,500 again.

1982 would Wayne shares in Apple have been worth 1.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2009 theoretically almost 13.6 billion pounds sterling ( 15.6 billion euros ). At the time of Steve Jobs death, the value of its former proportion had grown to more than 30 billion U.S. dollars. Own account, he did not regret the sale.

"Would I like to be rich? Everybody would like to be rich but I could not keep up the pace. I would have been wealthy, but I would have been the one richest in the cemetery. "

"If I were like rich? Everyone would like to be rich, but I could not keep the pace. I would be rich, but I'd be the richest man in the cemetery. "

Wayne is the owner of numerous patents. However, none of his inventions brought him the desired success.

Works

• Adventures of an Apple Founder. 512K Entertainment, 2011, ISBN 978-0-615-51742-1. ( Autobiography )