Dave Evans

I have to solve the energy crisis.

So that's all I was trying to do.

Well, the world was doing all kinds of things, you know.

We were still reeling from trying to end the Vietnam War.

Civil rights was going full blast.

I'm a full-on boomer, so we were trying to change the world.

I gave myself a trip all the way around the country in a beat-up old van as my graduation present, and it was a great summer because that was the bicentennial.

So I went to about 15 different apple pie contests across the country.

So there was a lot of Americana, there was a lot of stress, it was a really confusing time, but it was certainly, we have to fix the world.

And I was quite convinced I was ready to do that because we had the technology, we had the right ideas, but what we were missing was the social will.

There was a small fact that was left out of the brochure of my master's degree, which is, it's very difficult to get a job in an industry that doesn't exist yet.

So I was all dressed up for a party that hadn't started.

I spent four years profoundly unsuccessfully looking for a job that didn't exist.

And I was really upset.

Yes, there's a little outfit called Apple, actually.

It's a very long story as to how that occurred.

It began, actually, with a phone call.

I had a welding torch in my hand.

I had a little solar energy startup that, of course, miserably failed because it was way too soon.

And the guy said, my name is so-and-so, and I'm from Apple Computer.