Unknown buyer purchases Steve Jobs NFT résumé for 12 ETH

Steve Jobs’s job-application résumé in NFT form sold for a price 12 times lower than the original 1973 document.

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Steve Jobs’ Job Application (1973) Auction
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On July 28, an unknown user of the Rarible platform paid 12 ETH for the token (nearly $27,500 at the time of the deal).

Meanwhile, the handwritten résumé bearing the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’s signature went under the hammer for $343,000 at the Snoofa auction. The previous sale of the document was in March 2021 for $222,400.

In 1973, Steve Jobs filled out the questionnaire hoping to find work after dropping out of Reed College. He stated his field of study as “English literature,” and noted among his abilities and interests electronics technology and design.

A year later Jobs joined Atari as a technician. There he met Steve Wozniak, with whom he co-founded Apple in 1976.

Auction organizer Ollie Joshi simultaneously put up for sale both the paper and digital versions of the document to draw attention to the ‘shift in the perception of value’ in light of the NFT phenomenon.

Part of the proceeds will go to the Institute for Cancer Research and the One Laplop Per Child organization, which works on education issues for children in poor countries.

Earlier this year, on June 30, an unknown buyer purchased the NFT containing the Internet’s source code for $5.4 million. Later, in one of the components of the non-fungible token an error was discovered.

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