Almost everyone knows the American multinational technology company, ‘Apple’. Apple is one of the big four technology companies in the world along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook, and the company’s quarterly revenue for 2019 is $64 billion. Now, when we talk about Apple, we all remember the former president of the company ‘Steve Jobs’. Steve Jobs co-founded Apple along with ‘Steve Wozniak’. Steve Wozniak is an American computer scientist, inventor, programmer, and founder of Apple. In partnership with his friend Steve Jobs, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. They first founded their company with ‘Ronald Wayne’ under the name ‘Apple Computers’ in 1976 and launched some of the first personal computers on the market. In addition, Wozniak developed the following model,
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To know more about this computer scientist and entrepreneur, his early life, education, net worth, and more, scroll down.
Steve Wozniak: early life and education
The entrepreneur was born on August 11, 1950 in San José, California. He liked electronics at a young age, as his father was an engineer. Wozniak from his childhood had a keen interest in building electronic equipment from scratch, however, he was never a bright student during his student life.
Wozniak and Steve Jobs met through a mutual friend at the University of California, Berkeley. Jobs at that time period was in high school. Wozniak later left his job at Hewlett-Packard and partnered to form Apple Computer on April 1, 1976.
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Steve Wozniak: career and achievements
Wozniak and Jobs began working in a family garage to create a user-friendly alternative to computers that was introduced by many International Business Machines at the time. Wozniak handled product invention and Jobs handled all marketing activities. Shortly after the company was established, Wozniak created ‘Apple I’. With Wozniak’s knowledge of electronics and Jobs’s marketing skills, the two were well prepared to do business together. Wozniak went on to design the ‘Apple II’ as part of the company’s series of personal computers. Finally, in 1983, Apple had a stock value of $985 million.
However, in 1985 Wozniak ended his employment at Apple. In February 1981, Wozniak was in an accident when he crashed his private plane while taking off from Santa Cruz Sky Park. The accident caused him numerous injuries and amnesia and he too took a long time to recover. After his recovery from the accident, he created a new company, responsible for the first universal programmable remote control called ‘CL 9’. Similarly, in 1990, Wozniak teamed up with Mitchell Kapor and established the ‘Electronic Frontier Foundation’, an organization that provides legal assistance to hackers facing criminal prosecution. He also founded ‘Wheels of Zeus (WoZ) in 2002, whose goal is to develop wireless GPS technology.
Wozniak’s life is definitely an inspiration to many and eventually a movie called ‘Jobs’ happened. It was released in 2013. The film featured actor ‘Ashton Kutcher’ as the co-founder of Apple Jobs and actor ‘Josh Gad’ as Wozniak. Contrary to the review’s prediction that the film is very good, the film was littered with negative reviews. Additionally, Wozniak himself gave the film a negative review on the Gizmodo website, writing, “I felt bad for so many people I know well who were portrayed incorrectly in their interactions with Jobs and the company.” Wozniak has also appeared on the reality show ‘Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List’ and on ABC’s ‘Dancing with the Stars’ (Season 8).
Steve Wozniak: personal life and wife
Steve Wozniak was married four times. He was first married to Alice Robertson in 1976, but later divorced in 1980. After her, Wozniak married Candice Clark in 1981 and divorced shortly after 6 years in 1987. After ten years, Wozniak married Suzanne Mulkern and separated in 2004. He now lives with his fourth wife, Janet Hill whom Wozniak married in 2008. Since then the couple has been together.
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Steve Wozniak: Net Worth and Social Media
The computer scientist has a total net worth of $100 million. His main source of income includes his work as a computer scientist and entrepreneur. Wozniak uses social media platforms to keep people informed about his projects. He is accessible on Twitter by the name, ‘stevewoz’, with 627 followers. He also has a website called ‘woz’.
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