[jrockway]

Wayne insists he has no regrets about the choice he made

Fair enough, but I am going to regret it for him. 22 billion dollars. That's twice as much as eleventy billion!

[robryan]

I don't know what type of investment apple had but if he did stay wouldn't he's 10% have been diluted by future investment?

[ojbyrne]

Given that Steve Jobs' net worth is $5.5 billion (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs), that number does seem deliberately misleading.

[ajtaylor]

5 billion. 22 billion. Who cares what number comes in front of all those zeroes! It's the zeroes that matter. Once you start getting up in to the tens of millions I can't even imagine how to spend it all.

[nathanieljones]

See, I understand if you meant "how to spend it all on my desires for luxuries."

But if you truly meant "how to spend it all," I disagree with you. Every day, I think of a new company that would make the world a slightly better place. Every day, I wish I had 50 billion dollars so I could call my manager up, tell him "you have 3 million, find someone who can solve this problem," and have it done.

Hey, just building a worldwide cellphone network with enough bandwidth to not suck and decent international rates could take up more money than I could ever possibly earn.

Dream big.

[nkassis]

Well, doing good in the world with charities can get expensive. Or building space vehicles... I got plenty of ideas if I ever get that kind of money.

[lisper]

You start investing in things. You'd be amazed how fast the money can go.

[px]

And much of that sum is from the sale of Pixar to Disney.

[mrdodge]

Jobs has 138 million shares of DIS; currently valued at ~$4b.

He is famous for one of the worst trades in history with his Apple stock. In 2003 he accepted a safe but low returning investment in exchange for his 55 million Apple stock options. This stock would now be valued at ~$13 billion.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/36615-how-steve-jobs-lost-ov...