“In the 1994 Oscar-winning movie Forrest Gump, there’s a short scene in which Tom Hanks’s character opens a letter of thanks from Apple after his former military colleague and business partner Lieutenant Dan invested some of the profits from the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company in ‘some kind of fruit company,’ Killian Bell reports for Cult of Mac.

“If Gump was real and if he was still clinging on to his investment today, he could have a staggering 12 million shares in the Cupertino company worth around $7 billion,” Bell reports. “FancyDressCostumes.co.uk decided it would be fun to calculate what that investment in Apple would be worth today, ‘as a way of illustrating Apple’s extra-ordinary growth.’ How much of the shrimping profits Dan invested exactly isn’t mentioned in the movie, so a notional amount of $100,000 is used for this. Given the success of the Bubba Gump Shrimping Company, that’s certainly a plausible figure, and it would have given the pair around a 3% stake in Apple at the time (1970s).”

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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Lynn Weiler" for the heads up.]