Apple has managed to rewrite history in the past few days, surpassing the 3 trillion dollar valuation. Well, if Steve Jobs, who was the founding partner of the company and was the CEO from 1997 to 2011, was alive today, how much would his fortune be?
Breaking new ground in the world by exceeding the 1 trillion dollar threshold in August 2018, Apple, the world’s most valuable company, broke new ground again by exceeding 2 trillion dollars in August 2019. The company, which continues its growth without stopping, has recently 3 trillion dollar threshold He also broke his name in history again.
Founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne, and Steve Wozniak, Apple developed largely under the direction of Steve Jobs. Although he was not involved in the company he founded between 1985 and 1997, Jobs served as the CEO of the company from 1997 until his death in 2011. What if Steve Jobs were alive today and Apple had the same success back then? How much would Jobs’ fortune be today?
How much would Steve Jobs have today?
To calculate Steve Jobs’ estimated wealth today, we need to look at two items: Disney and Apple. Jobs had only a small stake in Apple at the time of his death. Much of Jobs’ fortune came from Disney. When Jobs sold his co-founder Pixar studio to Disney in 2006 Disney’s 8% share had it too.
Disney’s current value is $285.19 billion. This means that if Steve Jobs were alive today, only the money that came into his fortune from his share in Disney would be $22.8 billion means. When Jobs died, he left most of his wealth to his wife.
When we come to the Apple side, things get a little messy. When Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985, he had sold all but one of his shares. When he was reinstated as CEO in 1997, Apple gave Jobs about 5.5 million shares had given. At that time, the value of this stock was around $300 million.
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Apple has split shares four times since 1997. With the split on June 21, 2000, Jobs’ shares rose to 11 million (2 to 1), to 22 million (2 to 1) on June 28, 2005, to 154 million (7 to 1) on June 9, 2014, and the last as on 28 August 2020 to 616 million (4 to 1) would have risen. This is Steve Jobs’s share of only Apple today. 105 billion 952 million dollars It indicates that he will have wealth.
- When we collect both items, Jobs’s approx. $128.7 billion We see that he will have wealth.
This result is the result of Steve Jobs’ wealth in 2011. with present value obtained. But of course, in this process, he could see developments that would cause Jobs’ wealth to increase or decrease.
Steve Jobs would be the richest person in the world today with this wealth?
According to Forbes’ real-time list of the richest people in the world top 5 richest people in the world and their wealth is as follows:
- Elon Musk ($271.5 billion)
- Bernard Arnault ($196.9 billion)
- Jeff Bezos ($189.1 billion)
- Bill Gates ($136.1 billion)
- Larry Ellison ($118.9 billion)
If Steve Jobs had a net worth of $128.7 billion today He would be the 5th richest person in the world.