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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First his dad, then his mom, then his brother.
Jobs had recruited every person Wozniak cared about for an intervention.
Each one told him he was making the biggest mistake of his life.
It didn't work until Alan called.
Steve, you really ought to go ahead and do it.
You can be an engineer and become a manager and get rich.
Or you can be an engineer and stay an engineer and get rich.
That was exactly what Wozniak needed to hear.
I needed to hear one person saying that I could stay at the bottom of the organization chart as an engineer and not have to be a manager.
He called jobs immediately with the news.
The next morning, he came in early to HP and told everyone he was leaving to start his own company.
They were officially incorporated as Apple Computer in early 1977.
Mercoula had to meet with patent lawyers who went through every clever trick in Wozniak's design.
They ended up with five separate patents that would become, as Wozniak put it, one of these patents in history that became very, very valuable.
But there was one design decision that nearly destroyed Apple before it started.
It came down to a simple question.
How many expansion slots should the Apple II have?
steve jobs wanted two one for a printer and one for a modem that's it clean simple controlled he'd grown up watching his adoptive father build things with pride finished products completed and perfect you don't leave the hood of a beautiful car open wozniak wanted eight slots
He'd been going to homebrew meetings, watching engineers share ideas and push boundaries.
He understood something fundamental.
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