When Steve Jobs Refused To Give Early Apple Employees Stock, Steve Wozniak Offered Them $10 Million [View all]

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Steve Jobs may have been a brilliant businessman, but he wasn't always nice.

In the early Apple days, when the company was still being run in a garage, Steve Jobs and Apple's board refused to give some early employees stock options.

Apple employee No. 12, Daniel Kottke, was one of these people. He had traveled to India with Jobs and was his college friend, but Jobs still didn't feel he was worthy of stock. Kottke later told Dice that he hoped to meet Facebook's ousted founder, Eduardo Saverin, because he felt the two had similar stories.

"It got to be the summer of 1980 and I never had a stock option," Kottke told Dice. "No one would ever talk to me about it. All I wanted was just to touch base with Steve about it, and he just would not talk to me. He kept me waiting outside his office for hours, on multiple occasions. It was very cold. And you know how he is, he would just be on the phone endlessly until I went away, because he didn’t want to talk to me."

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