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Old 10-05-2011, 06:28 PM   #43
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Pretty much. He bought the computer graphics division from Lucasfilm in the mid '80s and eventually teamed up with Disney to make animated movies.
And sold it to Disney for billions in Disney stock. I think he was the single largest Disney shareholder.

I read somewhere too that he sold all his millions of original Apple stock, except one share (in order to get the annual report), when he left in the mid 80's. If he held onto it all at the time, he'd be worth 6 or 7 times as much (something like 35 billion) and be in the top 5 richest people in the world, FWIW.

Edit: Link to above http://www.spiritjb.org/2011/09/stev...y-mistake.html
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