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Up for sale "Apple Co-Founder" Ronald Wayne Hand Signed 3X5 Card W/ His Personal Emboss. 

ES-5709E, May 17,

1934) is a retired American electronics industry businessman. He co-founded

Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) as a partnership with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, providing administrative oversight and

documentation for the new venture. Twelve days later, he sold his 10% share of

the new company back to Jobs and Wozniak for US$800, and one year later

accepted a final US$1,500 to forfeit any potential future claims

against the newly incorporated Apple, totaling US$2,300. Wayne was born

in Cleveland, Ohio, United States on May 17, 1934. He

trained as a technical draftsman at the School of Industrial Art in

New York. In 1976, Ronald Wayne built the internal corporate documentation

systems at the three-year-old Atari, where he met coworkers Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. To help settle one of their typical intense

discussions about the design of computers and the future of the industry, Wayne

invited the two to his home to facilitate and advise them. In the ensuing

two-hour conversation about technology and business, Jobs proposed the founding

of a computer company led by him and Wozniak. Those two would each hold a 45%

stake so that Wayne could receive a 10% stake to act as a tie-breaker in their

decisions. As the venture's self-described "adult in the room" at

age 41, Wayne wrote a partnership agreement, and

the three founded Apple Computer on

April 1, 1976. Wayne illustrated the first Apple logo and wrote the Apple I manual. Wayne's business attitude was

already risk-averse due to his experience five years prior with the "very

traumatic" failure of his slot machine business, the debt of which he had spent one

year voluntarily repaying. Jobs secured a US$15,000 line of

credit to buy product materials for Apple's first order which had been placed

by The Byte Shop, whose reputation as a notoriously slow-paying vendor gave

Wayne great concern for his future. Legally, all members of a partnership are

personally responsible for any debts incurred by any partner; unlike Jobs and

Wozniak, then 21 and 25, Wayne had personal assets that potential creditors

could possibly seize. Furthermore, his passion was in original product

engineering and in slot machines, and not in the documentation systems he

assumed Jobs and Wozniak probably wanted him to do indefinitely at Apple.

Believing he was "standing in the shadow of giants" of product-design

talent and avoiding financial risk, he quit the days after Wayne wrote the document that formally created Apple,

he returned to the registrar's office and renounced his role in the

company", therefore relinquishing his equity in exchange

for US$800 on April 12, 1976. This period of time however has

been disputed by Steve Wozniak, who in an

interview said that Wayne left the company after a few months. Wayne has stated

in following decades that he does not regret selling his share of the company,

as he made the "best decision with the information available to me at the

time". He said he had originally believed that the Apple enterprise

"would be successful, but at the same time there would be significant

bumps along the way and I couldn't risk it. I had already had a rather

unfortunate business experience before. I was getting too old and those two

were whirlwinds. It was like having a tiger by the tail and I couldn't keep up

with these guys. Although Apple ended up at one point becoming the most

valuable company in the world, he said that with the stress of staying with

Apple he "probably would have wound up the richest man in the cemetery. He

summarized, "What can I say? You make a decision based on your

understanding of the circumstances, and you live with it. 

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