How much do you think Apple’s founding father’s iPad Pro is really worth? From the sound of it, quite a few. The written agreement that made official the formation of the Apple computer company in 1976 – as it was initially known – is reportedly going to be auctioned off, where it is expected to fetch up to $4 million.
As reported apple insiderBritish auction house Christie’s, which has several international salerooms, including one in New York, will offer the three-page document at an auction in early 2026. It includes the signatures of Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne as well as their respective stakes in the company that would go on to become one of the largest in the world.
Despite undoubtedly being an item of historical importance, the arrangement that people would bid for was ultimately short-lived. By the time Apple Computer Company became Apple Computer, Inc. less than a year later, Wayne had already sold 10 percent of his stock to his other co-founders.
In fact, he left the company less than a fortnight after its creation, a decision he insists he does not regret. BBC Interview in 2016, despite the fact that a 10 percent stake in Apple would have been worth about $60 billion at the time (and possibly significantly more than it is now). Several months later he was paid only $1,500 to give up all his remaining business interests in Apple. And to add insult to injury, Wayne eventually sold his copy of that original agreement for $500, as reported by a former Atari employee. BBC He Did Regret.
according to apple insiderThe soon-to-be-auctioned Apple agreement is valued at between $2 million and $4 million, and will go on display at the “We the People: America at 250” auction in New York on January 23. This wouldn’t be the first time an important part of Apple’s history has been sold. In 2023, a discontinued first-generation iPhone fetched $190,000 at auction, nearly 300 times its original price.
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