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"soon lost faith in the company and sold his stock for $900", linked source at http://news.com.com/2009-1023-259624.html says $800, is this value more likely correct?
hey $800 was a lot of money back then —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.182.92.74 ( talk) 20:49, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
I was a Bay Area business reporter in the 1980s and know the history of Apple as well as anyone could. Apple was founded by Jobs, Woz and Markkula. No Wayne was ever in the company. We need to delete this bogus article. George415 ( talk) 20:06, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I dispute the contention that Ronald Wayne co-founded Apple Computer. As I said, all the "history of Apple" books list Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike Markkula as the company's founders. Therefore, the article is bogus. Right? Shouldn't we delete a bogus article? George415 ( talk) 18:55, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Mike Markkula's Involvement in Apple
He was lured out of retirement after Steve Jobs, who was referred to him by Regis McKenna and Don Valentine[1], a venture capitalist who was not interested in funding Apple, visited him and convinced him of the market for the Apple II and personal computers in general. In 1977, Markkula brought his business expertise along with US$250,000 ($80,000 as an equity investment in the company and $170,000 as a loan) and became a one-third owner of Apple and employee number 3.[2] He also brought in Apple's first president, Michael Scott, then took the job himself from 1981 to 1983. Markkula served as chairman from 1985 until 1997, when a new board was formed after Jobs returned to the company. Wozniak, who single-handedly created the first two Apple computers, credits Markkula for the success of Apple more than himself. [3]
"He claimed that he didn't regret selling the stock" - translation: "He does" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.133.74.225 ( talk) 05:28, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
He claimed that he didn't regret selling the stock as he had made the "best decision with the information available to me at the time."
What's the Wikipedia citation policy on quotes? "He holds a dozen patents, but has never had enough capital to make money off any of them" is basically directly copied from the source #8. 98.182.39.84 ( talk) 22:30, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
I've reverted all the recent changes regarding Wayne's ownership of Apple products. Up until recently, this was true. But as the recent edits have noted, he was given an iPad at the Update conference. I have no reason to doubt this. But Wikipedia reports only things which are verifiable according to a reliable source. A photo on Instagram isn't enough to source a claim like this. If the gift at the conference is reported in a third-party reliable source, then it can be included.
But this presents us with an interesting issue: if he does now own an Apple product, then the earlier reports that he doesn't are no longer valid even though reliably sourced. So in order to abide by WP:RS, I've removed both the claim that he doesn't and that he does until we get a reliable source. I'm perfectly amenable to changing my view and if anyone wants to argue that the photo is a reliable source, I'll happily defer to consensus. — Tom Morris ( talk) 08:59, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
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According to the Wikipedia MoS, we should begin the article with So-and-so is an American engineer, banker, baker, butcher, etc. This article starts with what he did, not what he is. I know he's retired, but was he an engineer or something else? I can infer entrepreneur, but what else? — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 19:53, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
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The $2,300 is for two things a year apart. $800 is to give up his shares. $1,500 is to agree not to sue to get them back. Two different things.-- Tenebrae ( talk) 20:58, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Does anyone know if his life was part of the inspiration for the HBO film Clear History? There are definitely some parallels. Coinmanj ( talk) 17:03, 19 May 2015 (UTC)