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Adolescence
Stephen G Wozniak was born in San Jose, California, 8/11/1950. His father had been an engineer at Lockheed Martin, spawning an early interest in electronics. ("Steve Wozniak" 2019) In 1968, His college life began at the University of Colorado. Eventually, due to a lack of funds, he moved back to California and started going to school at UC Berkeley. ("A UC Berkeley Degree Is Now the Apple of Steve Wozniak's Eye" 1986) -
Phone Phreaks
At the start of the 1970s during his studies at UC Berkley, Wozniak met Steve Jobs, who was then still a high school student. The two would use custom-made blue boxes to perform prank calls and even sold their own product, which would put them down the path of making Apple (https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a38878/steve-jobs-steve-wozniak-blue-box-phone-phreaking/) -
The Start of Apple
In the mid-1970s, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs paired up to start Apple. At the time, Wozniak had been working with Hewlett-Packard. With the time and energy required for the task, Wozniak quit his job. Not long after, the two made the Apple 1 (https://www.biography.com/inventor/steve-wozniak) -
The Growth of Apple's Tree
After the launch of Apple 1, Jobs and Wozniak continued their business by launching new products. In 1977, they had launched the Apple 2. The product was their first consumer product, and had been highly successful. (https://apple2history.org/appendix/ahb/ahb1/) -
Leaving Apple
In 1985, Wozniak chose to leave Apple. He felt as if Apple was going in the wrong direction for the past five years, and as if it was hindering his personal growth. This paired with them already having people who could do his job and no longer having the excitement of the old days lead to his leave. (https://books.google.com/books?id=zC4EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA13&ots=a_Fs_n1Np8&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=false) -
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Teaching Life
After ending his business with Apple, for a time Wozniak had taught computing to school children from grades 5-9. His second life-long goal was always to teach children. This is in stark contrast to the businessman we know him as (Glance & UWA Centre for Software Practice 2019). -
New Ventures and CL 9
After leaving Apple, Wozniak went on to start new companies and ventures. One of the most prominent would be CL 9 ("Steve Wozniak" 2019). This company had been responsible for launching the first programmable universal remote, called CORE (Wozniak & Van Dusen 1990). -
Electronic Frontier Foundation
In 1990, Wozniak, with Mitchell Kapor, had launched the Electronic Frontier Foundation. the foundation's goal was to help protect and provide legal aid for computer hackers facing criminal prosecution. Being a hacker himself, it only seemed right that he assisted fellow hackers ("About EFF" 2019) -
WoZ (Wheels of Zeus)
In 2002, Wozniak launched WoZ. The company's main motive was the development of wireless GPS technology. One of the few products the company made had been the smart tag, a device you could attach to an item to keep track of its location. ("Wozniak: Inventors and Inventions" 2002) -
The Fall of WoZ
In 2006, Wozniak decided to shut down Wheels of Zeus. The company hadn't gotten as big as Wozniak would hope, making the comment that," Not everything turns out to be Apple." This, however, was not the end of Wozniak's business endeavors. (Kanellos "Wozniak shuts down Wheels of Zeus" 2006) -
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Ongoing Ventures
After ending WoZ, Wozniak went on to found Acquicor Technology, a holding company that acquires smaller companies to renovate them. Along with this from 2009-2014 he had been chief scientist as Fusion-io, and became chief scientist at Primary Data (Vance 2009).
