Steve Jobs Pre-Apple Job Application Auctioned for R 2 Million
Faizel Patel – 18-03-2018
A one-page job application filled out by Steve Jobs more than four decades ago has sold for $174,000 (R2-million), more than three times its presale estimate, at an auction in the US.
Reuters reports Boston-based auction house RR Auction says that an Internet entrepreneur from England who wished to remain anonymous was the winning bidder.
The job application, dated 1973 and complete with spelling and punctuation errors, had been expected to fetch about $50,000. The sale price reached on Thursday was $174,757.
The form lists his name as “Steven jobs” and address as “reed college,” the Portland, Oregon college he attended briefly. Next to “Phone:” he wrote “none”.
Under a section titled “Special Abilities,” Jobs wrote “tech or design engineer. digital.—from Bay near Hewitt-Packard”, a reference to pioneering California technology company Hewlett-Packard and the San Francisco Bay area.
The document does not state what position or company the application was intended for.
Jobs and friend Steve Wozniak founded Apple about three years later.
Bobby Livingston, executive vice-president at RR Auction says the high price reflects the continuing influence of Jobs, who died of cancer in 2011 at the age of 56.
“There are many collectors who have earned disposable income over the last few decades using Apple technology, and we expect similarly strong results on related material in the future.”
Other highlights from the online auction included an Apple Mac OS X technical manual signed by Jobs in 2001 that sold for $41,806 and a rare signed newspaper clipping from 2008 featuring an image of Jobs speaking at the Apple Developers Conference that sold for $26,950.
