![]() Berkeley to complete his degree in electrical engineering. After he was injured in an accident piloting his private Beechcraft airplane in 1981, Wozniak decided to return to U.C. While he officially remains an Apple employee, Wozniak’s involvement in the company today is relatively minor. And most famously, it was Jobs who realized that rather than merely sharing the schematics of Wozniak’s early designs for a personal computer with fellow hobbyists, they could assemble the components on a printed circuit board and sell a complete computer which, following funding from former Intel executive Mike Markkula, led to the founding of Apple Computer in 1976. While Jobs was working at Atari, he persuaded Wozniak to design the arcade game Breakout (and, in a story recounted in Wozniak’s autobiography, iWoz, reportedly misled Wozniak about the amount of the payment they were to split). It was Jobs, four-and-a-half years younger than Wozniak, who suggested the two sell Wozniak’s “blue box” device to students in the dorms at Berkeley. Wozniak’s early entrepreneurial ventures were closely intertwined with the activities of his high school friend and current Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Too shy to give a public presentation of his work, Wozniak would show his engineering feats in informal conversations following the meetings. Wozniak would demonstrate his new computing device at meetings of like-minded Silicon Valley electronics hobbyists known as the Homebrew Computer Club. While working at Hewlett Packard, Wozniak continued to design electronic devices in his spare time, and in 1975 created the first personal computer that used a keyboard for input and displayed characters on a television screen. In 1973, he started the first “dial-a-joke” hotline in the San Francisco Bay Area out of his home, telling all the jokes himself. He figured out how to build his own electronic “blue box” to generate the tones required to make free long distance phone calls. Berkeley in 1971, Wozniak read an Esquire Magazine article on the “phone phreaks” who illicitly explored the telephone network. It was that desire to design clever electronic devices that led to many of Wozniak’s early inventions. His goal early in life was to be an engineer and a lifelong employee of Hewlett Packard - and to have enough spare time to tinker with electronic gadgets. But Wozniak didn’t set out to establish one of the world’s most influential computer companies. Steve Wozniak, or “Woz” as he is commonly called, is best known for co-founding Apple along with high school friend Steve Jobs. How to Use Neuroscience to Build Team Chemistry January 23, 2023.Crisis Leadership: Harness the Experience of Others February 14, 2023.Choosing a New Board Leader: Eight Questions March 7, 2023.Speak With Confidence: Four Fixes That Work April 11, 2023.Meet the Authors: Wharton’s Katy Milkman on How to Change May 14, 2021.Meet the Authors: Mauro Guillén on How Businesses Succeed in a Global Marketplace June 21, 2021.Meet the Authors: Wharton’s Peter Cappelli on The Future of the Office November 4, 2021.Meet the Authors: Erika James and Lynn Perry Wooten on The Prepared Leader October 3, 2022.Navigating Microaggressions at Work November 1, 2022.How National Politics Are Impacting DEI in the Workplace February 7, 2023.Diversity at Work: Why Inclusive Storytelling Matters April 4, 2023.Improving Accessibility in the Workplace - and in Space May 16, 2023.Great Question: Kevin Werbach on Cryptocurrency and Fintech July 21, 2021.Great Question: Dean Erika James on Crisis Management August 16, 2021.Great Question: Wendy De La Rosa on Personal Finance October 15, 2021.Great Question: Witold Henisz on ESG Initiatives November 17, 2021.Making the Business Case for ESG May 3, 2022.How Companies and Capital Can Be Forces for Good June 21, 2022.Investing in Refugee Entrepreneurs in East Africa August 8, 2022.Why Employee-owned Companies Are Better at Building Worker Wealth November 11, 2022.Beyond Business: Humanizing ESG December 13, 2021.How Analytics Is Changing Finance November 29, 2022.How Data Analytics Can Help Deliver Social Good December 20, 2022.How Analytics Can Boost Competitiveness in Sports January 31, 2023.
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