Many people don’t know who Ron Wayne is. Never even heard of the guy even though his name kinda sounds familiar. Well, this gentleman with two first names was one of the founders of Apple Inc. Yep, this guy you’ve never heard of was a founder of the worlds most valuable company, along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Mr. Wayne owned a 10% stake in the company. 10% of what would become a company worth over $700 billion dollars just 39 years later. That share of equity sounds enormous. That’s because it is. But what happened to Mr. Wayne? Well, he sold his 10% back to Jobs and Wozniak just 12 days later for $800. Yup, that is the extent of his career at Apple. Jobs even tried to get him to come back to the company. But he didn’t. He went on to have a career of his own and do a bunch of things that people never cared about. His Wikipedia page is a sad little blurb taking up space on the Internet. But lets get back to this 10% of Apple that he owned. And lets just make the practical assumption that he would divested his ownership of the company over the years as Jobs and Wozniak did. Lets just say that he divested all of his ownership in Apple except for one quarter of 1%. Yes. One quarter of 1% of a company that’s worth over $700,000,000,000. He’d be worth $1.75 billion. Do you see the point here? Ron Wayne not only didn’t have vision, he didn’t have passion for what Jobs and Wozniak were creating. Sometimes failure has nothing to do with anyone but yourself. Don’t be a Ron Wayne.
