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Today's thought was submitted by Larry
A 21 year old Steve Jobs sold his VW bus for $1,500, Steve Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard calculator for $500. This was their start-up fund. The Apple I, introduced on April Fools Day in 1976. A small computer dealer ordered 100 units for $50,000! They purchased parts on credit, giving them a tight time-frame of a month to fulfill the order. They made it with just days to spare. Apple I earned the company around $774,000. They took money from investors, Apple II sales skyrocketed to $139 million, three years after its release. When Apple became a publicly traded company in 1980, it was valued at $1.2 billion, by the end of the first day the value was $1.8 billion! Not bad for a company started in a garage for two thousand dollars.