Guy Kawasaki Interviews The Woz who talked up a storm on Starting Apple, The Mac not having a 'real OS' & Steve Jobs
Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak may have built a technology empire now worth over $1 trillion, but they didn't share quite the same opinions on money, Wozniak told former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki in a podcast interview published Wednesday. Woz said that while he never really cared about money, Jobs was fixated on making it big, reports C/Net.
"Steve wanted to be important, and he had zero money," Wozniak said. "So he was always looking for little ways to make a next step in money, [and] he wanted to be that important person in life. And this was his big chance, because now he was founder of a company with big money being put in."
When the company took off, Wozniak says Jobs' personality changed. He no longer wanted to play pranks or joke around. Instead, he wanted to talk business. "He got kind of strict," Woz reflected.
It didn't come as much of a surprise, though. From the day they met, Jobs was always talking about important people like Shakespeare who'd changed the world.
"Because he talked about those people all the time, he wanted to be one of them, and he felt he had it," Wozniak said. "He had the motivation, and sometimes wanting something is a lot more important than having the real skill."
While C/Net's take on the podcast is interesting, there so much more to it that you should listen to 54 minute Guy Kawaski podcast titled "Steve Wozniak: Pirate, Co-founder of Apple, and Hardware Wizard," when you have a moment. You could check it out here.
Here's one example of a great part of the podcast: Steve Jobs changed as Apple started to become a real company and he wanted the world to know that all of the computers were from his head; that It was Steve Jobs who defined Apple's computers even though the projects he was on failed, like the Lisa. The Macintosh failed because it wasn't a full computer. It didn't have a real operating system. Steve didn't even know what an operating system was. It's why we had to buy an operating system 12 years later because the Mac never had one as a core OS. It only had things that acted as one. But at the end of the day, Steve Jobs was the smartest guy in the room at meetings.
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