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Steve Wozniak was born in San Jose, California.
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Wozniak starts working at HP and that is where he gets many of his connections even the one with Steve Jobs. This really kicked off his career while working there. When Working there he was working on mainframe computers
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This was his biggest connection that he made while he was in college, through a common friend. The friend believed that they would work well together because both had very similar passions and are very passionate about the things they do.
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Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs came together and formed what we know as Apple.
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Wozniak creates the Apple I in Steve Jobs garage and basement. When Wozniak started on this project there was no end goal and he just was using it as a hobby.
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Wozniak created the Apple II, it really started the personal computer trend and allowed people to have their own personal computers at home that they could use whenever they wanted to.
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In 1980 Apple's stock started to rise a ton, which is very impressive for a company that started in a garage and is only 4 years old. Their stock value was standing at $117 million.
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Wozniak almost died in a plane crash and he had to take off two years to recover from the crash. In that time the stock value went all the way up to $985 million.
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Wozniak decided after his retirement to keep working on his craft and created the company CL 9. This was the first ever programmable universal remote control.
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Wozniak decided that working at Apple was too much and his relationship was strained with Steve Jobs so he decided to retire
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In 1990 he was awarded one of the most creative engineers in all of Silicon Valley which is a very impressive accomplishment.
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Wozniak wanted to make it possible for people to find everyday things to make life easier for people.
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Wozniak then joined the board of directors of two companies, one was Danger Inc. and the other was Ripcord Networks Inc.
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This company was a data storage and server company that was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah. They hired him as their chief scientist.
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Wozniak joins Primary Data as a chief scientist that was a company founded by Fusion-io executives that he used to work for.
