What did Arthur Rock do for Apple?
What did Arthur Rock do for Apple? Rock bought 640,000 shares of Apple Computer for nine cents a share, an investment of about $57,000, and he became a director of the company. Three years later, when Apple went public, his shares were worth $14 million, a return of 23,000 percent, further enhancing Rock's reputation. Who is Arthur in Steve Jobs? Art Levinson Apple 2.0 Arthur D. Levinson was the chairman and CEO of Genentech, a biotech firm, when he joined the Apple board of directors in 2000. An avid Apple user, he got Steve Jobs interested in biotech —so much...