17 Facts About Ronald Wayne

Ronald Gerald Wayne was born on May 17,1934 and is an American retired electronics industry business executive.

Ronald Wayne trained as a technical draftsman at the School of Industrial Art High School in New York City.

In 1971, Ronald Wayne started his first business designing and manufacturing slot machines.

In 1976, Ronald Wayne was well respected for his sophisticated and comprehensive internal corporate documentation systems at the three-year-old Atari.

Ronald Wayne created the first illustrations of the Apple logo.

Ronald Wayne's attitude concerning business was already risk-averse following his experience five years prior with the "very traumatic" failure of his slot machine business, the debts from which he had spent one year repaying.

Legally, all members of a partnership are personally responsible for any debts incurred by any partner; unlike Jobs and Wozniak, then 21 and 25, Ronald Wayne had already acquired a sizable amount of personal assets that potential creditors could possibly seize.

Ronald Wayne was later paid in exchange for relinquishing his equity stake in the company.

The exact timeframe of this exit has been disputed by Steve Wozniak, who in an interview said that Ronald Wayne left the company after a few months.

Ronald Wayne has stated in the decades that followed, he does not regret selling his share of the company, as he made the "best decision based on the information available at the time".

Shortly after leaving Apple, Ronald Wayne resisted Jobs's attempts to get him to return, remaining at Atari until 1978, when he joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and later Thor Electronics, an electronics manufacturing company in Salinas, California.

Steve Jobs approached him again as a business contact for Apple, but Ronald Wayne refused to forward Jobs's proposal to purchase a friend's company.

Ronald Wayne believed that his friend should retain ownership of the company, supplying this technology to Apple under exclusive license instead of selling the business.

Ronald Wayne later expressed regret for interfering with this decision instead of allowing the negotiations to be made directly between the parties.

Ronald Wayne appeared in the documentary Welcome to Macintosh in 2008, where he describes some of his early experiences with Jobs and Wozniak.

In July 2011, Ronald Wayne published a memoir titled Adventures of an Apple Founder.

Ronald Wayne wrote and released a socioeconomic treatise titled Insolence of Office, released on October 1,2011.