Overview
- Bottum recounts in The Royal We and on The Hustle: Money & Music that he invested a $12,000 touring check in Apple at a low point in the early 1990s.
- He says the idea came from his then-boyfriend Jim Olson, and he left the shares untouched for decades as Apple rebounded.
- According to Bottum, the holding could now exceed $7 million in value, a figure reported from his account and not independently verified.
- He and the interviewer note that he used a portion of the gains to purchase a home in New York.
- Bottum emphasizes that the financial cushion has not slowed his output, citing a finished Imperial Teen album in mixing, a new Crickets record starting in New York this month, another Man On Man album planned, and a book tour beginning in two weeks.