[bsammon]

The article says that Jobs owned a lamp like this in 1982.

Questions that come to mind:

Was Steve Jobs rich in 1982?

In 1982, was the cost of a "real" Tiffany lamp within the reach of someone at Jobs's 1982 wealth/income level?

What are the chances that the item Jobs owned was a knockoff or a mass-produced item?

I imagine that Steve Jobs was the kind of person who would buy a $5000 lamp even if he was only making $20,000 a year.

[bsammon]

Ah... okay, some quick research says the Apple IPO was in 1980, so he was (at least somewhat) rich in 1982.

[pengaru]

from his wikipedia page:

  > In 1978, at age 23, Jobs was worth over $1 million (equivalent to $4.82
  > million in 2024). By age 25, his net worth grew to an estimated $250 million
  > (equivalent to $865 million in 2024). He was also one of the youngest "people
  > ever to make the Forbes list of the nation's richest people—and one of only a
  > handful to have done it themselves, without inherited wealth".[97] In 1982,
  > Jobs bought an apartment on the top two floors of The San Remo, a Manhattan
  > building with a politically progressive reputation. Although he never lived
  > there,[98] he spent years renovating it thanks to I. M. Pei.