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Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak is an American computer engineer who co-founded Apple Computer, Inc. with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing significantly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s. Wozniak created the Apple I and... Apple II computers in the mid-1970s. Wozniak has several nicknames, including "The Woz", "Wonderful Wizard of Woz" and "iWoz" . "WoZ" is also the name of a company Wozniak founded. He is sometimes known as the "Other Steve" of Apple Computer, the better known Steve being co-founder Steve Jobs. In 1970, Wozniak had become friends with Steve Jobs, when Jobs had a summer job at the same business where Wozniak was working on a mainframe computer. According to Wozniak's autobiography, iWoz, Jobs had the idea to sell the computer as a fully assembled printed circuit board. Wozniak, at first skeptical, was later convinced by Jobs that even if they were not successful they could at least say to their grandkids they had their own company.
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Ronald Gerald Wayne founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, but soon gave up his share of the new company for a total of $2,300. Wayne was born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He worked with Jobs at Atari before the two men and Wozniak founded Apple Computer on April 1, 1976.... Serving as the venture's "adult supervision", Wayne drew the first Apple logo, wrote the three men's original partnership agreement, and wrote the Apple I manual. Wayne received a 10% stake in Apple but relinquished his stock for US$800 less than two weeks later, on 12 April 1976. Legally all members of a partnership are personally responsible for any debts incurred by any partner; unlike Jobs and Wozniak, 21 and 25, Wayne had personal assets that potential creditors could seize. The failure of a slot machine company he had started five years earlier also contributed to his decision to exit the partnership. Later that year, venture capitalist Mike Markkula helped develop a business plan and convert the partnership to a corporation. Wayne received another check, for $1,500, for his agreement to forfeit any claims against the new company.
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William "Bill" V. Campbell is the current Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Intuit Inc. He formerly worked for Apple Inc. , Claris , and GO... Corporation . Son of a local school official, Campbell was born and raised in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. He attended Columbia University and starred in football. He was head coach of Columbia's football team from 1974 to 1979. He left after the 1978 season, which featured a disastrous 69-0 defeat at the hand of Rutgers, which ended what had been one of college football's oldest rivalries. He met his wife, the former Roberta Spagnola, while she was the assistant dean in charge of Columbia's undergraduate dormitories. He joined J. Walter Thompson, the advertising agency, then Kodak where he rose to run Kodak's European film business. Hired by John Sculley he became Apple's VP of Marketing, then ran Apple's Claris software division. When Sculley refused to spin Claris off into an independent company, Campbell and much of the Claris leadership left. However in 1997, upon the return of Steve Jobs to Apple, Campbell has sat as a corporate director on the board.
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Millard "Mickey" S. Drexler is the current chairman and CEO of J.Crew Group and formerly the CEO of Gap Inc. He has been a director at Apple Inc.... since 1999. He studied at the Bronx High School of Science, City College of New York, and University of Buffalo. He later received a M.B.A. from Boston University Graduate School of Management. In the mid-1970s, Drexler was a merchandising vice-president at Abraham & Straus in Brooklyn, New York. He has also worked at Ann Taylor, Bloomingdale's, and Macy's. Drexler is often credited with Gap's meteoric rise during the 1990s. Until then Gap had been a relatively small chain selling private and public brands. Under Drexler the company made a dramatic shift to private brand merchandise and expanded rapidly to become an iconic part of 90's pop culture. Television advertisements featuring young models and catchy music such as "Mellow Yellow" and "Dress Me Up In Your Love" came to epitomize the relaxed American casual look that Gap was all about. On May 22, 2002, however, Drexler was abruptly fired by Gap founder Donald Fisher. The J.
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Donald T. "Don" Valentine is an influential venture capitalist who concentrates mainly on technology companies in the United States. He has been... called the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital". The Computer History Museum credited him as playing "a key role in the formation of a number of industries such as semiconductors, personal computers, personal computer software, digital entertainment and networking." He began his technology career in the 1950s and was a founder of National Semiconductor, as well as being a senior sales and marketing executive for Fairchild Semiconductor. In 1972, he founded venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, and in that role was one of the original investors of Apple Computer, Atari, LSI Logic, Oracle Corporation, Cisco, Electronic Arts, Google, YouTube and many other companies. Valentine is currently the Chairman of NetApp and a board member of Traiana. He has, over decades, served on the boards of many other technology companies. Don Valentine has three children and seven grandchildren, all of whom live in the Bay Area. Graduated with a B.A.
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