{"id":1921,"date":"2012-10-22T07:44:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2012-10-22T07:44:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T12:44:13","slug":"my-tenuous-connection-to-steve-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1921","title":{"rendered":"My tenuous connection to Steve Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I listen to audio books while running or walking the dog. I&#8217;m currently listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1451648537\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1451648537&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=gucaante-20\">Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=gucaante-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1451648537\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>. I&#8217;m no fan of Apple or Jobs (Wozniak is another thing entirely), but I feel it&#8217;s important to understand one of the most influential <del datetime=\"2012-10-22T12:02:40+00:00\">minds<\/del> marketers of the last 200 years.<\/p>\n<p>He was a hypocrite and a sociopath, but there&#8217;s no denying he changed the world.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, today they covered the brief involvement of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_Wayne\">Ron Wayne<\/a> in Apple Computer. The short story is that Ron went into a partnership with the Steves, but FREAKED OUT when Jobs started going around borrowing tons of money. Eleven days after forming Apple, he sold his shares back to the Steves for $2300.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, his shares would have been worth $2.4 <i>B<\/i>illion.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to my tenuous connection to Steve Jobs. In 1998, I worked in a video rental store. The assistant manager was a woman in her early- to mid-twenties, if I recall correctly. The iMac had just been released, and another coworker and I were talking about it. This woman piped up and told us that her estranged father had briefly been involved in Apple, and was &#8220;basically the laughing stock of the computer world&#8221; for selling out because he was afraid of going bankrupt again.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea if her claim is true (Ron Wayne is gay, and I can&#8217;t find anything online to indicate he has children), but she wasn&#8217;t they type of person who I would have expected to know Wanye&#8217;s story in such detail.<\/p>\n<p>So, two degrees of separation between me and Steve Jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I listen to audio books while running or walking the dog. I&#8217;m currently listening to Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. I&#8217;m no fan of Apple or Jobs (Wozniak is another thing entirely), but I feel it&#8217;s important to understand one of the most influential minds marketers of the last 200 years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}