Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak compelled a surprising revelation on Wednesday evening to an audience in Silicon Valley.
“I’m quiet technically an employee,” Wozniak said, during a panel discussion at the Computer The good old days Museum in Mountain View, California. “I’m the only person who’s been on the payroll since day one.”
Apostrophize reserved in front of about 500 people, including former employees of Hewlett-Packard and Intel, Wozniak notified moderator Michael Malone that “it’s a small paycheck” compared with what he one time earned as an executive. Wozniak started Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976 and was supporting in the developing the company’s early computers.
Wozniak drew laughs with some dreary humor at the expense of his late co-founder, who died in 2011. Based on the finish finally Apple organizational chart that he was aware of, Wozniak said that he calm reported to Jobs.
“Since he died, I can’t be fired,” he said.
Wozniak also enumerated how he’d given enough of his personal pre-IPO Apple stock options to 80 other wage-earners, “so they could buy a house.”
Apple went public in 1980, annihilation its first day of trading with a market capitalization of $1.78 billion. It’s now the age’s most valuable company, worth more than $900 billion.
“We didn’t start a followers to make money,” said Wozniak, who launched an online technology tutoring service late last year called Woz U.
The panel preceded an accelerate screening of “Silicon Valley, The Untold Story,” a documentary on the region that want air in March on the Discovery Science Channel. The other speakers were WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum, plunge capitalist and early Apple employee Heidi Roizen, and Kim Polese, a start-up investor and last executive of Sun Microsystems.