A CEO for a business card startup has paid $10,050 for an auctioned-off lot of three of Steve Jobs’ old business cards; proceeds will benefit a school in Northern California.
Three of Steve Jobs’ old business cards recently sold for $10,050, or $3,350 each.
They represent different periods in his career from around 1984 to 1990, as president of NeXT, Chairman of the Board at Apple Computer, and Chairman of the Board of Pixar.
The lot was purchased by Tim Knowles, CEO of a startup named Stacks that is set to launch a digital business card sharing app later in 2015.
He has said in an interview that he made the personally funded purchase because “we wouldn’t be doing what we are doing right now if it wasn’t for him!”
The money he paid will go towards a
