Steve Jobs on Fortune and Worth
What Jobs talks about
Jobs describes how quickly his net worth grew after Apple’s December 1980 IPO, giving specific milestones from age 23 to 25. The focus is not on the money itself, but on how little it ultimately mattered to him.
The recording is a very short remark about fortune and personal worth. It offers a compact glimpse of Jobs’s attitude toward wealth in the early Apple era.
Jobs speaks throughout.
In his words
“I was worth about over $1,000,000 when I was 23”
“Over $10,000,000 when I was 24”
“Over a $100,000,000 when I was 25”
“It wasn't that important.”
Key points
- Apple’s December 1980 IPO made Jobs a multimillionaire.
- He says he was worth over $1,000,000 at 23.
- He says he was worth over $10,000,000 at 24.
- He says he was worth over $100,000,000 at 25.
- He concludes that it “wasn't that important.”
Full transcript
In December 1980, initial public offering of stock in Apple Computer made Steve Jobs a multimillionaire. I was worth about over $1,000,000 when I was 23 and over $10,000,000 when I was 24 and over a $100,000,000 when I was 25. And it's... It wasn't that important.
Transcribed from the audio by speech recognition (Deepgram). Timestamps link to the video above. Errors are possible.