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Steve Jobs didn’t get rich from Apple. He got rich from a software startup he bought from George Lucas, a company most people don’t even associate with him funding more than $50 million in losses over nine years until the company’s IPO turned stake into $1.1 to $1.2 billion in a single week
In this video, we cover how Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 through its $429 million purchase of NeXT, then ran the company that became the world’s most valuable on a $1 salary and a single restricted-stock grant of 5 million shares, less than 1 percent of Apple when he passed.
We also cover the 2006 sale of Pixar to Disney for $7.4 billion in stock, which made Jobs Disney’s largest individual shareholder and the source of most of his fortune.
The lesson is that running a company and owning it are two different games. Jobs won the wealth game by holding the business nobody was watching while giving almost everything back to the one he was famous for.
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