Here’s how much Steve Jobs’ job application sold for – Times of India

Memorable facts about the co-founder of Apple Steve Jobs Auctions pop up online quite often. As we have seen in the past, people are willing to pay significantly more for stuff related to Jobs. This time was no different because job applications filled by Jobs Earned a whopping $3,43,000 in an online auction.
Jobs applied for the job in 1973 when he was 18 years old. It is said that this is the only job application he ever filled as he started Apple in 1976 along with Steve Wozniak.

What does a job application say?

According to the description on the auction site, Jobs filled out the document with his name, “Steven Jobs”; Address, “Reed College”; Phone, “None”; and Head, “English Lit.” In the central part, he writes “Yes” in response to ‘Driving license?’ and ‘Possible, but not probable’ In response to ‘access to transport?’ in relation to their skills.computer‘ and ‘Calculator’, he writes, “yes (design, technology).” At the bottom, he describes his ‘special abilities’ as “electronics tech or design engineer”. digital.—From the Bay near Hewitt-Packard [sic]”

The app is “in very good condition, with intersecting folds, overall creasing, mild blurring, and some old clear tape on the top edge.”
Interestingly, this job application has already been auctioned. In March 2021, the same application fetched $2,221,747 – showing that its value has increased significantly in just one year.

hard copy vs digital copy

More interestingly, the digital version of the rare document was also auctioned for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFTs are the talk of the town with people buying digital versions of rare things. However, when it came to Jobs’ job applications, the digital copy sold for $23,000 – far less than the physical hard copy.
According to a report in Business Insider, the organizers of the auction wanted to wage a one-on-one battle between physical and digital auctions. “by keeping NFT And together with the original physical job application for auction, the sale will test the appetite for digital assets as opposed to physical counterparts,” the organizers said. According to the organisers, the idea of ​​this first-of-its-kind auction was to challenge the notion of value in the physical and digital world. “The outcome of the auction will show whether true value can be embodied in both or whether one medium is moving forward,” the organizers said. Clearly, physical copies matter more than digital if auction results are anything to go by.