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In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple in Jobs’ family’s garage, where they launched their first product, the Apple I. This setting became the starting point for Apple’s incredible journey in the tech world.
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In 1974, at the age of 19, Steve Jobs took a job at Atari, working on the development of video games. He was working on single-player version of Pong within very tight timeline, but with help from Steve Wozniak, they completed the work within 4 days, which was Jobs’ timeline. However, that same year, Steve…
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In 1972, at the age of 17, Steve enrolled in college but soon decided to leave. He later explained that he didn’t want to burden his parents with the cost of an education that felt meaningless to him.
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In 1968, when Jobs was 13, he cold-called Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard for some electronics parts for his school project. Hewlett offered Jobs summer job at HP. Around same age, Steve also met Steve Wozniak (18 at the time) in the high school.
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In 2008, Joel with Jeff Atwood started Stack Overflow, a question and answer community website for software developers. This went onto become biggest resource for developers and sold for $1.8 billion in 2021 (isn’t this a great move, right before ChatGPT became household name?)
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Joel Spolsky, is founder of Trello, Stack Overflow and Glitch. His blog is one of OGs of internet. I found Joel from Seth Godin’s blog. I revisit JoelOnSoftware every now and then, it’s a great time capsule, fun and excellent learning resource with 1000+ articles. Around his 30th (1995), it seems that Joel had left…
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