{"id":15214,"date":"2019-12-12T23:16:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T23:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/apples-ipo-makes-forrest-gump-rich-6\/"},"modified":"2019-12-12T23:16:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T23:16:35","slug":"apples-ipo-makes-forrest-gump-rich-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/apples-ipo-makes-forrest-gump-rich-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s IPO Makes Forrest Gump Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Apple_Computer_IPO_1980.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1573]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3852\" alt=\"Apple_Computer_IPO_1980\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/448d3__Apple_Computer_IPO_1980-231x300.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Apple_Computer_IPO_1980-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Apple_Computer_IPO_1980-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Apple_Computer_IPO_1980.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>December 12, 1980<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Apple_Inc.#Apple_IPO\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Computer holds their initial public offering<\/a>, selling 4.6 million shares at $  22 per share and turning more than 40 Apple employees and investors into instant millionaires. With the stock value closing at $  29, the market capitalization puts the company&#8217;s worth at $  1.778 billion. Stock held by Steve Jobs is worth $  217 million, Steve Wozniak $  116 million, and Mike Markkula $  203 million. This was the largest IPO in the US since the Ford Motor Company in 1956.\u00a0Oh, to have gotten a piece of that fruit company back then!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/12\/12\/apples-ipo-makes-forrest-gump-rich\/\">Apple&#8217;s IPO Makes Forrest Gump Rich<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/06d0b__13061220.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/13061220\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 12, 1980 Apple Computer holds their initial public offering, selling 4.6 million shares at $ 22 per share and turning more than 40 Apple employees and investors into instant millionaires. With the stock value closing at $ 29, the market capitalization puts the company&#8217;s worth at $ 1.778 billion. Stock held by Steve Jobs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[602,2946,2947,437,2948],"class_list":["post-15214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-apples","tag-forrest","tag-gump","tag-makes","tag-rich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}