Steve Wozniak
speaker
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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How could I not?
The revolution had started in a garage with 30 engineers, and it had moved through Wozniak's mind in one night.
Now, it was about to become Apple Computer, though neither Steve knew that at the time.
But first, Woz had to tell HP.
He was, after all, their employee.
To raise $1,000 they needed for printed circuit boards, Wozniak sold his HP65 calculator for $500.
Jobs sold his VW van for a few hundred more.
They needed a name.
Driving back from the airport one day, Jobs suggested Apple Computer.
He'd just returned from an apple orchard in Oregon, though it was actually some kind of commune.
They tried to think of something more technical sounding, but couldn't.
Apple it is.
But before they could officially start, Wozniak faced a dilemma that revealed everything about his character.
Everything he designed while working at HP technically belonged to HP.
I believed it was my duty to tell HP about what I had designed while working for them, he said.
That was the right thing, the ethical thing.
Plus, I really loved that company.
What followed was a comedy of corporate blindness that would cost Hewlett-Packard trillions.
Wozniak went to his boss and explained that he designed an inexpensive desktop computer.
A meeting was arranged with executives.
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