<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/technology/apples-steve-wozniak-wants-to-live-and-die-in-australia/08fa0a99-201d-46b2-a20f-b6bd14bd2afa" rel="" target="" title="Steve Wozniak"><span>Steve Wozniak</span></a><span>, </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/technology/i-m-vertical-i-m-back-says-apple-s-jobs/66f2a441-533c-433f-b79d-585bfd88b4e4" rel="" target="" title="Steve Jobs"><span>Steve Jobs</span></a><span> and Ronald Wayne founded </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/technology/apple-almost-went-broke--now-its-celebrating-50-years/0a597f3d-d703-45c4-9a75-44602dec6a8e" rel="" target="" title="Apple Computers"><span>Apple Computers</span></a><span> on </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/today-in-history" rel="" target="" title="April 1, 1976"><span>April 1, 1976</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Wozniak and Jobs gave Wayne a 10 per cent stake in the company to act as a tie-breaker between them.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But Wayne got cold feet, and sold his equity for $US800 12 days later.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-march-29-what-happened-on-this-day-hyphen-war/9d24576f-6be0-428d-b797-8d362e6a782e" rel="" target="" title="Country splits in two after failing to resolve punctuation dispute"><strong><span>Country splits in two after failing to resolve punctuation dispute</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Wayne had lost a lot of money running a slot-machine business several years earlier, and did not want to take the risk.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>If he had held onto his stake, Wayne would be one of the richest men in the world.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But Wayne said he never had "the slightest pangs of regret".</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-april-1-what-happened-on-this-day-ronald-wayne-apple/0630abf2-5deb-43ca-ac0a-9cd5665c3748" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"My contribution was not so great that I felt I had been diddled with in any way," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It was like having a tiger by the tail and I couldn't keep up with (Wozniak and Jobs)."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-march-20-what-happened-on-this-day-princess-anne-kidnapping/28eae109-7afb-4aec-84fa-6cb5face085e" target="" title="Princess Anne tells would-be kidnapper 'not bloody likely'"><strong><span>Princess Anne tells would-be kidnapper 'not bloody likely'</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Had he kept his stake in Apple, he would be worth more than $500 billion today.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Wayne sold the original partnership contract paper in the early 1990s for $US500. 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