Steves Jobs and Wozniak you probably have heard of, but it's unlikely you're as familiar with the third co-founder of Apple. And there's a good reason for that. Now 76 years old and living in the middle of nowhere, getting by on social security cheques he dumps into the local casino's one-armed bandits, Ron Wayne very nearly had it all. But then he threw it away. He is almost certainly the most unlucky man in Silicon Valley history, which is saying a lot. Wayne's 10% ownership stake in Apple, agreed upon right at the beginning of the company's history, would be worth about $22 billion today. Uninspired by Jobs and Wozniak's work style, however, he sold the shares back for $800. If this all seems like a horrible cosmic joke, maybe it is. After all Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne came together to found the company the latter designed that original logo and wrote the manual for the Apple I on April Fool's Day, 1976. Seems like a bad omen. It was for Ron Wayne, at least.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
