The Apple Investment

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In 1976, Steve Jobs was a XNUMX-year-old college dropout. Working out of his garage, he had a dream: to make computers accessible to everyone. But he had no money or business experience to make his vision a reality. Until Mike Markkula saw something in him.

Markkula was a millionaire who had made his fortune with Intel and recognized a special italy mobile database potential in Jobs. He wrote a check for $250.000 (about 1,2 million euros today) to Apple , getting a third of the company. But money wasn't his most important contribution.

Markkula became Apple's first president and Jobs' mentor. He taught the young founder lessons that would shape Apple's destiny. Without his guidance, Apple might have remained a small computer hobby shop. Instead, it became the most valuable company in history.