Steve Wozniak: Co-founder of Apple

About Steve Wozniak: Co-founder of Apple

Stephen Gary Wozniak (born August 11, 1950), known as "Woz", is an American technology entrepreneur, electrical engineer, computer programmer and inventor. In 1976 he co-founded Apple Inc., originally Apple Computer, with his early business partner Steve Jobs, and through his work there in the 1970s and 1980s he is widely recognized as one of the most prominent pioneers of the personal computer revolution. In 1975 Wozniak began developing the Apple I into the computer that launched Apple, which he and Jobs began marketing the following year. He was the primary designer of the Apple II, introduced in 1977 and known as one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers, while Jobs oversaw its foam-molded plastic case and early Apple employee Rod Holt developed its switching power supply. With human-computer interface expert Jef Raskin, Wozniak had a major influence on the initial concepts for the original Macintosh from 1979 to 1981, when Jobs took over the project after Wozniak's brief departure following a traumatic airplane accident. After permanently leaving Apple in 1985, Wozniak founded CL 9 and created the first programmable universal remote, released in 1987. He then pursued several other business and philanthropic ventures, focusing largely on technology in K-12 schools, including a 1990 initiative to place computers in schools in the former Soviet Union. Sources: English Wikipedia (Steve Wozniak, accessed September 2026).

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Co-founder, Apple Inc.; inventor and engineer

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Apple Inc. (co-founder)

Computer Hardware, Engineering

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