Check out this 'insanely great' offer letter Steve Jobs wrote to hire an employee – who now regrets turning him down. (via CNBCMakeIt)
David Paul Morris | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesSo, in 1985, Jobs used his ambition – andof his own money – to launch NeXT, a company Jobs started in order to build computers for colleges and researchers. And, this week, a piece of history from that period in the tech icon's career hit the auction block.
Jobs' letter ends with a bit of cheeky confidence in the form of an enthusiastic sentence – "I accept this insanely great offer!!!" – above a blank space where Nagy was meant to sign his name. However, Jobs was not actually able to poach Nagy, who ended upRR Auction's website currently lists the letter's lot as "closed", but the auction house has not yet announced if the letter sold.
"The offer was very unusual in that there was no job title, department, or specific areas of responsibility," Nagy wrote in the letter. "I loved my job at Apple and didn't think NeXT would be successful, but in retrospect obviously should have taken the opportunity." For what it's worth, the $80,000 salary Jobs was offering would be worth nearly $180,000 today, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But given the lack of a job title and Jobs' abrasive leadership style, it's also possible that the offer wasn't quite as fantastic as advertised.
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