The extraordinary thing about Jobs is that he successfully managed NeXT. As a result, nearly 65,438+00 years later, Apple's board of directors bought NeXT with $377.5 million in cash and 654.38+0.5 million shares of Apple. Jobs also took this opportunity to return to Apple as the king and successfully led Apple to make a comeback until it became the world's most valuable company.
In addition to his legendary experience at Apple, Jobs had another brilliant career. 1986, Jobs spent100000 yuan to buy a computer animation studio. Jobs named the company Pixar, produced the world's first fully computer-generated animated feature film Toy Story, and launched films such as Finding Nemo. In 2006, Disney acquired Jobs' animation company for $7.4 billion, and Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder, holding shares in Disney.
In the past 10 years, Jobs only got an annual salary of 1 USD from Apple, and his wealth mainly came from 654.38+38 million shares of Disney and 5.426 million shares of Apple. In the Forbes rich list in March this year, Jobs became the 34th richest man in the United States, ranking 1 10 globally. With the rise of Apple's share price this year, Jobs's assets have also increased. However, compared with the tens of billions of dollars worth of Microsoft founder Gates and Oracle Bone Inscriptions founder Ellison, Jobs' current worth is slightly inferior, and the disparity in share ratio is the main reason why Jobs and Gates are not in the same heavyweight.
According to the industry, Jobs' biggest mistake was to sell about 6.5 million shares of Apple in a rage when he was driven out of the house by the Apple board of directors (accounting for about 1 1.3% of Apple's shares at that time). Although Jobs later regained a large number of Apple shares when he returned to Apple, the proportion in the company's total share capital was not high. At present, Apple's total share capital is 92,765,438+million shares, and Jobs holds 5,426,000 shares, accounting for only about 0.585%. If Jobs hadn't sold those Apple shares, his personal wealth would have surpassed Gates with his Disney shares.