A company called Winthorpe Ventures bought a 1973 job application from Steve Job in the fourth quarter of the year for $ 221,747 (US dollars). Today, a few months later, it is up for auction. What stands out the most? The auction applies for a physical version and another for a digital version. Do you think this is crazy? Stay with us as we tell you all about Steve Job Candidature Auction.
The first who you need to know before talking about auctions what are NFTs. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are an “inimitable” asset in the digital world that can be bought and sold like any other type of property, but they have no tangible form on their own. In addition, these digital tokens can be validated as certificates of ownership of virtual or physical assets. This is how the digital version of the job application will be sold.
Steve Job’s application is up for auction (last bid was $ 14,000)
Winthorpe Ventures has a 1973 Steve Job application for sale. You can see it there. an 18-year-old Steve Job who claims to have special skills in digital electronics technology, have no real work experience and are unlikely to be able to use public transport every day to get to work.
Until today (6 days before auction end) the last bid or offer for the physical version was $ 14,000(US dollars), while the digital version is $ 700. Although the value of the physical bid has yet to reach what Winthorpe Ventures paid, just yesterday at the start of the auction, the highest bid for the physical version of Steve Jobs’ bid was $ 2, while the digital version was $ 12. cents.
This online auction can be found on the website www.stevejobsjobapplication.com. In addition, the website offers you the possibility to see how the auction is going live and in the two presentations of the job application (the physical document with the virtual one).
At iPadízate, we believe that it’s really amazing the value that an asset can take from someone like Steve Job which marked the history of our present. Would you be willing to pay thousands of dollars or dollars for a job application to Steve Job? Let us know in the comments. Don’t leave without first taking a look at all the what’s new in iOS 14.7 and how to download it, because you’ll get the most out of your iPhone.
