Ronald Gerald Wayne was born on May 17, 1934 in Cleveland Ohio, United States. He used to work at Atari before he, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Inc. on April 1, 1976. He drew the first logo of Apple Inc which was a wood cut style design with a man sitting under an apple tree with the ‘Apple Computers’ name written in a flowing ribbon curved around the tree.He also wrote the three men’s original partnership agreement and wrote the Apple I manual.
Wayne received a 10% stake in Apple but relinquished his stocks for US $600 less than two weeks later on April12, 1976.
Steve Jobs attempted to recruit Wayne back to Apple but Wayne resisted his plea. He joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and later at Salinas California Electronic Company.
Wayne is retired and is now selling stamps, rare coins and gold from his Pahrump, Nevada Home.
The logo of his company was a woodcut style design with a man sitting under an apple tree with the “Wayne’s Philatelics” name written in a flowing ribbon curved around the tree. This logo is interesting because it was the first logo of Apple Computers, which he designed.
The most interesting thing is that he has never owned an Apple product.
He holds a dozen patents but has never had enough capital to make money off any of them.
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