Although Ronald Wayne doesn’t regret his decision of selling his stake, having cited that it was the best decision following the information available to him at the time, he would have garnered billions if he had stayed with Apple Company. In August 2018, Apple shares recorded a historic market cap value of $1 trillion, hence, becoming the first publicly traded company in the United States to ever reach such landmark.
As a result, a 10 per cent Apple Stake today, is valued over $95 billion. Nevertheless, Ronald Wayne has maintained he has no regrets about cutting ties with Apple, though, he is not happy he sold his original copy of the Apple company agreement signed by Jobs, Wozniak and himself. He sold the contract copy in the early 1990s for $500. In 2011, the copy fetched $1.6 million at auction.
With several reports stating that the American businessman would have been one of the richest people in the world today if he hadn’t cashed out on his stakes, Wayne has reiterated that he would have probably ended up being the richest man in the cemetery if he had stayed with Apple. He never made use of Apple products since leaving the company, but fate smiled on him when he was gifted with iPad 2 at the Update Conference he attended in Brighton, England, in 2011.
Despite being regarded as the unluckiest founder of any company in the world, Ronald Wayne’s wealth is estimated to be around $400,000 as of today.
