Ondrej Holzman The third founder of Apple is not talked about much and is often not even mentioned next to Steve Jobs and Wozniak. However, Ronald Wayne also played an important role in the founding of today's richest company in the world, and he described everything in the just-published autobiography entitled Adventures of an Apple Founder...
However, the truth is that his life at Apple has been quite a life. After all, Wayne, who is 77 years old today, sold his share in the company after only 12 days of its operation. Today, part of it would be worth $35 billion. But Wayne does not regret his act, he explains in his autobiography that he does not think he made a mistake.
Wayne had already worked at Atari with Jobs and Wozniak, then all three decided to disconnect and start working on their own Apple computer. Thanks to Wayne especially for the design of the company's first logo, because he did not manage to do much more.
He left Apple after just 12 days. Unlike Jobs and Wozniak, Wayne had some personal wealth to leverage. At the time he sold his 10% stake for $800, today that portion would be worth a staggering 35 billion.
Although Jobs later tried to win Wayne back, according to some sources, he decided to continue his career as a scientific researcher and creator of slot machines. In the book description Adventures of an Apple Founder it costs:
While working as a senior designer and product developer at Atari in the spring of 1976, Ron decided to help his co-workers start a small business. It was because of Ron's natural sensibility, experience and skills gained during his long career that he decided to help two much younger entrepreneurs - Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak - and offer them his knowledge. However, these same qualities soon led Ron to leave them.
If you want to know more about Ronald Wayne's life, you can download his autobiography for less than $10 from iTunes Store, or for less than $12 from Kindle Store.
Source: CultOfMac.com
And which of those evolutionary versions of the logo did he design? The colorful apple or an older, more complex variant?
You answered yourself. He was there for 12 days.. "for the design of the company's first logo"
You can't buy that book on the itunes store. If it's only in American, then the link to it is useless here. The fact that I can't buy anything here (including music) bothers me enough.
So I don't know if it's better to work with machines that rob people, or to create new computers. But especially that you justified it :D
Everyone finds an application in what suits them best. A'T already designs machines, computers or vibrators, I still have more respect for this person and respect him more than 80% of people in the world :) Moreover, it will be another interesting and I think very beneficial book for my library :) Keep it up…