Here’s some helpful advice for the children of anyone super famous.
Don’t throw away anything they’ve ever owned or touched. Seriously, it could make you a fortune if you hang on to it.
It might not surprise you that an aloof, creative genius/mad scientist like Steve Jobs wore Birkenstocks. Heck, the brand seems like it was created for someone like Jobs.
He was rocking them in the Bay Area in the 1970s and ’80s, and guess what? The pair of grimy old shoes he wore over 40 years ago went on auction and brought in a ton of cash.
Could he have been wearing them when he walked around his or Steve Wozniak’s parents’ garage when he invented the Apple brand? For $218,750, the person who bought them, I’m sure, hopes so.
Here’s what’s crazy about this particular pair of sandals; their value has risen like Bay Area real estate. The first time the shoes were sold six years ago, they went for $2,000. Not bad for a piece of pop culture tech history.
Here’s what Christine Brennan, a former partner of Jobs aid, about these sandals in a Vogue story five years ago.
“The sandals were part of his simple side. He would never have done or bought anything just to stand out from others. He was simply convinced of the intelligence and practicality of the design and the comfort of wearing it. And in Birkenstocks he didn’t feel like a businessman, so he had the freedom to think creatively.”
Would there be other ways to spend $200K that would make more financial sense? Maybe, but whatever it is wouldn’t be as interesting to break out at a party.
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