Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers]

In nineteen seventy six, Steve Wozniak offered his personal computer design to Hewler Packard, where he worked as an engineer. H P Said no. So he and Steve Jobs started Apple. Four years later Wazniak was worth eighty eight million dollars.

Then he did something that Silicon Valley still doesn't quite understand. Something that violated every rule. Of how you're supposed to win in the valley. The man who created the computer that built Apple into a Fortune 500 company never wanted to run a company at all. He just wanted to stay at the bottom of the ore chart building cool stuff.

This is the story of the founder who won by refusing to play the game everyone else was playing. Welcome to Outliers. I'm your host Shane Perish. This show is all about learning from others, mastering the best of what they've figured out, so you can use their lessons in your life. Well, Steve Jobs was building a mythology. Wozniak was in his HP cubicle designing computers on paper because he couldn't afford the parts. Jobs dreamed of changing the world, Wozniak just wanted to impress the Homebrew Computing Club. But here's what almost no one understands.

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