The buyer was Eduardo Cisneros, chief executive of Cisneros Corporation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16170953
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Apple Founding Documents Sell for Nearly $1.6 Million
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My gawd. Ron Wayne getting the shaft. Again. That poor guy. Can someone send him a care package? He just doesn't have any business sense, does he?
They actually talk about Ron briefly in Jobs biography. He's not a glory hound and probably not the type of guy that would have thrived at Apple anyway.
They actually talk about Ron briefly in Jobs biography. He's not a glory hound and probably not the type of guy that would have thrived at Apple anyway.
Ron Wayne has a video of an interview on his website where he says he was given $500 for them back in 1994.
http://ronaldgwayne.com/
Unbelieveable, poor guy.
http://ronaldgwayne.com/
Unbelieveable, poor guy.
"According to Bloomberg, Sotheby's identified the winning bidder as Eduardo Cisneros, CEO of the Cisneros Corp." - Engadget
I could too, but it would depend on what $1.6 million is worth to me. If it was my last $1.6 million, the Apple documents would be a waste. But not if I was earning that much every month.
I think it's a fair price for those documents. The astoundingly high price reflects the genuine love people everywhere have for Apple, its story, and its accomplishments. I would have been disappointed if it went for the asking price.
That price seems reasonable to me. Not that I can ever see affording it. But if I was rich, I would have bid on it...
The auction premium would annoy me, though, at that price.
The auction premium would annoy me, though, at that price.
Seems that the "auction premium" is much, much smaller than Apple's margin on most anything....
Do you know anything about antiques and collectibles?
Would you just throw a Wayne Gretzky rookie card in your wallet?
Do you think an original Andy Warhol is just a canvas with some paint blotches on it?
Do you know anything about antiques and collectibles?
Would you just throw a Wayne Gretzky rookie card in your wallet?
Do you think an original Andy Warhol is just a canvas with some paint blotches on it?
I guess it is worth to some people and not to others. I wouldn't pay more than 100$ for those papers. However, I would pay even more than one million for a music score written by the hand of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven or Ligeti, if I had the money.
Why because a collector bought it for historical value? I think you just have an axe against wealthy people. A vulgar display of wealth is when one shoves it in other's faces as if to say "I'm better than you." That is not what the buyer was doing here. He was just buying something for his private collection. He didn't issue the press release, the auction house did.
People need to stop "pitying" Ron and commenting on what a bad business man he was/decisions he made/regrets he has.
Not everyone judges their life and accomplishments on how much money they made or could have made but by the life they led, people they've surrounded themselves, and so on.
Maybe he regrets his decision. Maybe he's had a wonderful and fulfilling life and couldn't care less. Either way - no one on here should take cheap shots or poke fun at him for doing what he believed to be in his own best interest. It's really not for "you" to decide.
Not everyone judges their life and accomplishments on how much money they made or could have made but by the life they led, people they've surrounded themselves, and so on.
Maybe he regrets his decision. Maybe he's had a wonderful and fulfilling life and couldn't care less. Either way - no one on here should take cheap shots or poke fun at him for doing what he believed to be in his own best interest. It's really not for "you" to decide.
Humor is generally lost on this crowd. I laughed.
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Do you know anything about antiques and collectibles?
Would you just throw a Wayne Gretzky rookie card in your wallet?
Do you think an original Andy Warhol is just a canvas with some paint blotches on it?
I have this perfectly good baseball but this Dimaggio guy wrote his name on it. Ruined!
We know Jobs would have never bidded on these if still alive. Cause he hated looking into the past. And if the rest of Apple is the same then I'm pretty sure no one high up in Apple bidded on these. Apple likes to look forward and not back.
I'm pretty sure some random rich person bought these to keep in a private collection.
