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1976 · Business
He sold his 10% stake in Apple for $800
Ronald Wayne helped found Apple, then decided the personal risk was larger than the promise. Eleven days later, he was out.
An Apple-1 at the Computer History Museum — the computer the original partnership was formed to sell. Photograph: Michael Hicks · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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2014 · Careers
I didn’t get the agency job. So I built a tiny studio.
The rejection stung for a month. The first independent client stayed for eleven years.
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2019 · Real Estate
The house fell through. The move did not.
Losing one address made room for a city they had never seriously considered.
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2023 · Everyday Life
I missed the flight and made the dinner.
A cancelled weekend became the evening where two old friends finally stopped rushing.