A new article at BBC News By Maggie Shiels.
It Begins:
"The co-founder of one of the world's iconic companies is a reluctant billionaire who wanted to be an engineer first and a boss last.
The man in question is Steve Wozniak, the designer of the first Apple computer and its successor in his spare time.
He learned basic electronics from his father and knew by the time he was at high school that he wanted to be an engineer for life."

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"Tim Brady, founder of Yahoo ... Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development ... Max Levchin, founder of PayPal ... Steve Wozniak, founder of Apple. All are legends in the technology world. We know their ideas were successful because we use their products every day.
But once upon a time, they were ordinary people. Where did they get their 'big ideas'? How did they muster the confidence to convince investors to back them? What made them overcome incredible odds to become rich and successful? In short, what was it like in the very early days of their startup businesses -- when no one knew their names?
'Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days' offers answers to these questions and more. Author Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator, a seed-stage venture firm and organizer of Startup School. Thanks to her research and interviews with 32 startup founders of successful technology firms, we have an amazing glimpse of the earliest days of startups that have become part of today's business lexicon.

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