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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When Wozniak saw it months later at the West Coast Computer Fair, he was sickened.
They could have had Apple, he said.
They could have had it all.
Atari turned them down too, saying they were too busy with video games.
So let's pause just for one second.
Here's where we're at at this point.
HP turned them down.
They could have had Apple, owned all the design, the products, and incubated that.
Commodore turned them down, and Atari turned them down.
Don Valentine at Sequoia dismissed them, but did connect them with Mike Mercoula, 30 years old and already retired from Intel.
The very first time I met Mike, I thought he was the nicest person ever, Wozniak said.
Mercoula had everything, a beautiful house overlooking Cupertino, a gorgeous wife.
But the best part was he actually understood what they had.
To Mike, it was common sense that computers would be in regular people's homes.
They'd keep recipes on them, balance checkbooks.
He saw it coming fast, and he believed the Apple II could be that computer.
He agreed to invest $250,000.
Then he told them something else.
We're going to be a Fortune 500 company in two years.
This is the start of an industry.
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