CONTROVERSY: Apple's $544M gamble + a rare event

The Motley Fool CONTROVERSY ERUPTS: The Steve Jobs Story You Never Thought You'd Hear Hey Fool, In December 1979, in one of the biggest gambles in business history, Steve Jobs gladly gave away 100,000 shares of pre-IPO Apple stock. Total value: $1 million. Actually, Jobs was giving away far more than a million dollars... Nonetheless... he knew he was getting the steal of a lifetime. See, Apple's highly-anticipated IPO was just months away. And everyone — Jobs included — knew that 100,000 shares of Apple stock would soon be worth WAY more than $1 million. In fact, when Apple did IPO just a few months later, that $1 million bribe from Jobs was already worth more than $22 million! Today... it's worth more than half a billion! (Around $638 million, to be exact) Still, Jobs forked over this fortune without a second thought. Apple's future depended on it. Because with that king's ransom, Jobs bought himself three days of unrestricted access to a fabled Silicon Valley technology facility... And to the secretive technologist who ran it. Considered by many to be the smartest man in the world. This man was Dr. Mark Weiser — the chief technologist of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. The innovation coming out of Weiser's shop was light-years ahead of the competition. Which is why Jobs was willing to pay so dearly to get a glimpse behind the curtain. Yet as valuable as Weiser's insights would prove to be to Jobs... Creating hundreds of billions of dollars for Apple in the years and decades that followed... All these years later, Weiser's predictions may prove even more valuable to you as an investor. See, Weiser once said... "The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it." He imagined a world in which everything around us... ...our belongings, our homes, our streets, our cars, everything... ...were all seamlessly and invisibly integrated. And today, this reclusive genius' vision is finally coming to life. Everything we've talked about so far... connected cars, wearable computing, mobile payments, magical devices, etc... These are all individual pieces in this world-changing puzzle. The folks over at Harvard's Business School put it best... "We are witnessing something like the epic collision of two galaxies." And I think it will change everything it touches. I've seen it first-hand. This is me. In Finland. In the dead of winter. Talk about cold! Why was I there? Because this little-known frozen town is ground-zero for some of the most exciting technological breakthroughs of our lifetime. Get the full scoop in an exclusive webinar tomorrow — just click the button below to reserve your seat! Experts estimate this will be a $19 trillion industry impacting HALF of the world economy. Investors who play it correctly — especially in these early days — are practically destined to make the kinds of returns we only see every couple of decades or so. That's why at 10:30am tomorrow I'm going be giving an in-depth web presentation detailing how individuals like you should be investing in this rare opportunity. Because the real winners are not likely to be in the major media. Listen: over the coming months and years, you'll see all the "usual suspects" in the headlines... Apple... Microsoft... Cisco... Intel... Yes, these companies are on the bleeding edge. But are any of them going to go up 2x, 3x, or more any time soon? Do any of them have the potential to turn a modest investment of $5 or $10 grand into $50,000 — $100,000 or more? Probably not. They already did that for their shareholders in the "second wave of innovation" we talked about yesterday. Now, as we enter into the third wave, a new group of rocket stocks are set to emerge. So tomorrow at 10:30am, I'm going to tell you about this group of companies and show you how to identify the stocks poised for the biggest, most dramatic runs. And I'll even give you the name, ticker symbol, and complete investment analysis on a little-known stock that my boss, David Gardner, believes could be one of the biggest winners of all. David has given me permission to share this stock with you 100% free, so you can take advantage while there's still time... And learn more about investing strategy he's used to outperform the market nearly TWO TO ONE since 2004. We're holding this special, free event for our readers because this is a rare time... and rare times call for rare events! All you have to do is click the button below to claim your free seat to this exclusive, Fools-only event! Yes! Reserve my seat to this rare FREE webinar! This is big! Until tomorrow, Eric Bleeker, CFA Senior Technology Analyst The Motley Fool P.S. — Remember: David's track record when it comes to sniffing out stocks at watershed moments like this is like listing the hall-of-fame of millionaire-minting stocks ... If you put $10,000 into AOL when he went on record recommending it... today you'd have $1,616,500. Think about that: nearly $2 million in your bank account! Off a mere $10,000 invested. It's almost hard to grasp, I know — but it's true! It doesn't stop there... If you snapped up $10,000 worth of Amazon when David first recommended it, you'd have $352,000 right now. And his picks in Netflix, Priceline, and Disney would each be adding another $500,000+ each to your bank account right now... And that's just the tip of the iceberg! Look: please do not miss out when I share his latest insights tomorrow. This is your chance to finally be one of the folks that "got in" early on. 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