He currently works as CEO at a company named Omnibiotics. Markkula was as instrumental in developing Apple as either of the two Steves. He also helped manage the company, develop a business plan, hired the first CEO, and insisted Steve Wozniak join Apple. At the time he was thinking about joining HP. Markkula was an early Intel employee and became a millionaire by the time he was 30 when the company went public. He stayed at Apple until , overseeing the ouster and return of Steve Jobs.
When Jobs came back, Markkula left. Why is Jobs employee No. Michael Scott says, "I didn't give it to Jobs because I thought that would be too much.
In between, he led Pixar. Steve Jobs died in October Wozniak almost didn't join Apple. He had a job offer at HP in Oregon and was considering taking it. He made the right choice, clearly. Years later, "Woz" as he's known is still a regular face in Silicon Valley — he gives interviews, speeches, and has even appeared on "Dancing with the Stars.
Ronald Wayne was an original partner in Apple with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, but decided the business wasn't for him. He left. In , Wayne wrote an essay on why he left Apple. It's quite good:. To counter much that has been written in the press about me as of late, I didn't lose out on billions of dollars. That's a long stretch between and Apple went through a lot of hard times and many thought Apple would simply go out of business at various times in its maturity. I perhaps lost tens of millions of dollars.
And quite honestly, between just you and me, it was character building. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Get the Insider App. Even as a small child, he wanted to do things his own way. Steve was born in San Francisco, on 24 February His birth parents were a graduate student named Joanna Schieble and a Syrian teaching assistant named Abdulfattah Jandali.
Joanne and Abdullah had met at the University of Wisconsin, fallen in love, and traveled to Syria together. When Joanne became pregnant, they were not ready to become parents. Once back home, they decided to place their baby for adoption. Paul and Clara Jobs had been wanting a child for many years before one finally came into their lives. Steve grew into an active and curious toddler. Twice they had to rush him to the emergency room: one time because Steve had stuck a metal pin into an electric socket and burned his hand, and another time because he had eaten poison!
When Steve was two, his parents adopted a baby girl named Patty. Steve later said that his childhood home was one of the things that inspired him as a designer. Steve always knew he was adopted. When he was about six years old, he told a little girl who lived across the street. Steve ran home crying. His parents explained that was not the case at all.
When Paul went to the junkyard to look for parts, Steve went along. Growing up in Silicon Valley, Steve had many neighbours who worked as engineers. One of them, Larry Lang, became an important mentor.
To this day, Wozniak said still is on the Apple payroll "out of loyalty," although he left the company in But Wozniak insists that money, power and fame are not the factors guiding his life. Like this story? Skip Navigation. Jennifer Liu. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, co-founders of Apple, in Don't miss: Bill Gates says this is the Steve Jobs trait he envied the most In , this was Steve Jobs' vision for the office of the future Ashton Kutcher tried Steve Jobs' all-fruit diet — and it didn't go well.
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