Last night,
Sarai and I were invited to exhibit some of our coolest Retro Roadshow artifacts at the launch party for a really awesome event in San Francisco called "The Museum of the Human Web." This event is being staged by the amazing team at
Parallel Web Systems, and their incredible thoughtfulness and attention to detail is apparent in every nook and cranny of the exhibit space.
Perhaps the most memorable part of the experience for us was exhibiting a Macintosh SE/30 that we've spent decades restoring and upgrading, alongside the original handwritten memo that led to
Apple receiving an early round of venture capital funding in 1977, a truly one-of-a-kind artifact of tech/cultural history.
I love all the little details in this document:
- "Business: Home - hobby computers"
- "Proposed financing: $600,000"
- "Market: >$500m"
- "A leading company in a hot biz"
- "$600k buys 10%, very rich deal but management questionable for this evaluation"
- “While management believes that the market for personal computers will grow rapidly, a large market for personal computers is not assured and development of the market will require education of potential personal computer customers. Development of the market will be both time-consuming and expensive.”
For context, buying 10% of Apple today would cost you somewhere around **$400 billion dollars** 🤯
HUGE thanks to
Lukas Levert,
Phoebe Darling,
Parag Agrawal, and the whole
Parallel Web Systems team for this wonderful experience! ❤️