rancakmedia.com – Steve Jobs’ First Job Application at Auction for IDR 4.9 Billion. Job application letter belonging to the late Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs’ first job application letter that he wrote himself at auction. Either in NFT form or in its original form.
The letter was written by the Apple Co-founder to apply for a job in 1973. Exactly a year before Jobs joined the video game start-up Atari, which brought together another Apple co-founder, namely Steve Wozniak.
In the letter, Jobs wrote about his interests and abilities, such as in the fields of computers, design, to electronic technology. Jobs wrote additional information such as having a driver’s license, birth date which was February 24, 1955, until he himself did not have a telephone at that time.
Steve Jobs Job Application Letter Sells IDR 4 Billion
The founder of Apple managed to sell it at a price of US $ 343,000 or equivalent to Rp. 4.9 billion in an auction held last weekend. The application letter made by Steve Jobs in 1973 consisted of two versions, namely paper and digital.
Job Application Letters. Paper documents generate more offers than digital versions which are sold as non-exchangeable tokens.
Launching from appleinsider.com, the digital version of the NFT successfully sold for US$23,000, according to a website regulated by auctioneer Olly Joshi. When Joshi signed up for those points earlier this month, he put the NFT version on a trial run.
“Will this open a new market for decentralized collections? Will this reinforce the status-quo? Or can we witness a long road with new knowledge if the two of them can live side by side and complement each other as we pass 50 years of development ahead?” said Joshi who was taken by Usaha.com on Monday, (02/08).
Steve Jobs’ cover letter has been receiving bids for years, most recently selling for $3 billion in March. Initially in 2022 it was recorded at a price of almost IDR 2.5 billion. Not much is known about the document. Steve Jobs filled it in when he was 18 while taking an auditing class at Reed College.
He dropped out of Reed College after 6 months, but Steve Jobs continued to attend various liberal arts classes for the next year and a half. In addition to cover letters, the first Apple hardware and Jobs memorabilia are often auctioned off at high prices. For example, the first computer Apple-1 was marketed at a price of US $ 1 million in 2022.
