[Talisker]

A long, long time ago, a guy I know interviewed at a company. Place was running out of the back of a warehouse, workshop was planks laid on sawhorses, office furniture was lawn folding chairs. Guy took one look and said, "Forget this.....". He threw the interview.

Place turned out to be Dell. He'd have been the 8th or 9th person in. 20-odd (more??) years later, he's still kicking himself over it. :-)

I knew a VC who entertained a couple of long-haired hippies showing him a motherboard and taking big and asking for money. One of them literally stunk with BO. He was incredulous and got rid of them. Yep - Jobs and Woz.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

One of the three founders of apple

“Ronald Gerald Wayne (born May 17, 1934) is a retired American electronics industry worker. He co-founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, providing administrative oversight for the new venture. He soon, however, sold his share of the new company for $800 US dollars, and later accepted $1,500 to forfeit any claims against Apple.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Wayne

[Swordmaker]

I knew a VC who entertained a couple of long-haired hippies showing him a motherboard and taking big and asking for money. One of them literally stunk with BO. He was incredulous and got rid of them. Yep - Jobs and Woz.

My nephew turned down being one of the first 12 guys working for Apple. . . Jobs recruited him but he thought it wouldn't amount to anything. . .