Rare Check Signed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak Expected to Fetch $25,000+ at Auction

[ignatius345]

I had the same checks from WFB back in early '80s (though Palo Alto, not Los Altos)... yeah I was a kid that thought "this looks like money so it'll inspire confidence" like it matters on a check... anyway dumb me should have been thinking about heading over to Apple to ask how I can help out instead (Woz came to our electronics club on occasion so was an Apple fan from start)

Whoa, that's cool! I grew up a bit further north in Santa Rosa in the mid-80s, and I remember my middle school math teacher bringing in what I believe was an Apple I that he'd assembled from their kit. I hope the guy held onto it.

 

[Enlightened Doggo]

You’re right, it’s largely factored into ‘who you know’, and of course financial influence is a big part of gaining momentum in various start ups and productions. But I think it’s all mutually related, when you look at ‘luck’, financial wealth, education, experience, it’s all necessary I think to become successful long-term.

Believe it or not, years of education is actually negatively correlated to social return (see Bryan Caplan). The primary value of a formal education to most people in my opinion is that it signals status and competency. Only the truly gifted seem to deeply, personally benefit from continued education. Maybe Jobs was one of those people. He did after all continue his education despite not collecting credits for his classes.

 

[Crowbot]

It looks like both names were signed by the same person. If you compare the 'e' etc. This check is not signed by both! If you Google Steve Wozniak signature, he always sign's "Woz" and its done differently from here!
Did Steve sign for both?

I have to disagree. The "s"s are different, the "e"s are different and the "v"s are different. The Jobs sig is fairly neat while the Woz is more messy. It looks like Jobs wrote the check and signed it, not leaving enough room for the full Wozniak.

 

[FlyingTexan]

People knew they were different when they wrote "Thirty four hundred" instead of "three thousand four hundred".

 

[incoherent_1]

Today it's a very small and expensive private college that has produced 32 Rhodes Scholars. Their admitted students' median SAT scores place them in the 96th percentile. Obviously not a school for regular people. Maybe it wasn't as exclusive back then.

"Small, expensive, and high SAT scores" describes dozens of colleges throughout the US. Your average person outside of the Pacific Northwest has never heard of it.

Again, I'm not saying it's anything other than a great school and mean no insult to the staff and alums, but it isn't an ultra-elite ivory tower with the instant name recognition of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, etc. as an earlier comment here suggested.

 

[Mousse]

I've never seen a check signed by two people before.

So what would have happened--at the time--if only one of them had signed it? Would it still have been a valid check?

Lots of large companies usually require two signatures for sums over 100,000. It make it harder to embezzle.
Anyhow, I like that the check uses a proper dating format dd/mm/yyyy? instead of the weird 'Merican mm/dd/yyyy format.?

 

[Musocat]

Lots of large companies usually require two signatures for sums over 100,000. It make it harder to embezzle.
Anyhow, I like that the check uses a proper dating format dd/mm/yyyy? instead of the weird 'Merican mm/dd/yyyy format.?

I noticed that too - and even more properly, they used letters for the month instead of numerals. That makes the date perfectly clear no matter the nationality of the reader. I've been doing it that way since I read Strunk & White in high school.

 

[lfaa]

Don’t they have some used Steve Jobs toilet paper to offer?

You definitely exagerate. But I've heard next auction will be for a used paper napkin - but still very well preserved- showing numbers totaling 3430$ and it might be related to that check, historians say.