Steve Wozniak
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809 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 21 May
Steve Wozniak’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The part in the story that I have to mention is not only did their parents know what they were working on, they didn't try to stop them.
Woz writes, we had promised our parents we'd never do it from our home.
The blue box changed everything.
Then Jobs had an idea.
Hey, let's sell these.
So they started selling these little blue boxes for $150 each, splitting the revenue.
It was their first business together.
In 1973, Wozniak landed his dream job at Hewlett Packard designing calculators.
This was the company for me, he'd write, because I'd already decided I wanted to be an engineer for life.
HP was different from other tech companies.
It was run by engineers for engineers.
During a recession, instead of layoffs, HP cut everyone's salary by 10% so no one would lose their job.
To Wozniak, that's how a company should work, like a family, where everyone takes care of each other.
I never agreed with the normal thinking, he writes, where a company is more competition driven and the poorest, youngest, or most recently hired workers are always the first to go.
At home, he worked on side projects constantly.
When coworkers asked him to build something for them, he never charged.
It didn't feel right to charge for something he loved doing.
Then one day at the bowling alley, he saw Pong, the first successful video game.
He stood there staring at it, mesmerized.
I could design one of these, he thought.
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