As the article points out, Woz was Chief Scientist at Fusion-IO [1] as well. That company struggled [2] before being acquired by SanDisk for less than the IPO price.
It was a different story in 2011 when Woz went on CNBC and said that the company "has grown as fast as Apple so far" [3] pushing the stock to the highest point it would ever reach just a month before the share lock-up expiration [4].
It's only a small market in today's (arguably inflated) valuations. Plenty of publicly traded companies have valuations in the millions, rather than billions.
It was a different story in 2011 when Woz went on CNBC and said that the company "has grown as fast as Apple so far" [3] pushing the stock to the highest point it would ever reach just a month before the share lock-up expiration [4].
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion-io
2: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/25/fusionio_flasher_fla...
3: http://m.cnbc.com/us_news/45074931
4: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2011/12/06/fusion-io-...