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Co-founder of Apple Inc.
About Steven Wozniak
In 1976, in a Los Altos garage, I hand-soldered the Apple I’s motherboard, no microprocessor development board existed, so I designed one from scratch using TTL chips, then wrote the entire monitor ROM in machine code. Unlike most engineers of the era, I prioritized simplicity and accessibility: the Apple II had color graphics, built-in BASIC, and expansion slots, not because they were easy, but because I believed every hobbyist deserved tools that just worked. I refused stock options for early Apple employees, insisted on sharing schematics freely, and walked away from day-to-day operations before the Mac launched, not out of disinterest, but because I valued engineering integrity over corporate scale. My proudest legacy isn’t a product, it’s the culture of joyful, collaborative tinkering I helped embed in Silicon Valley’s DNA, where hardware wasn’t black-box magic but something you could open, understand, and improve.
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