Meanwhile, Jobs was hustling up customers. Since Apple was far from a sure thing, Wayne retained his day job at Atari and worked nights on the original Apple logo and documentation for the Apple I. “Either I was going to be bankrupt or the richest man in the cemetery,” Wayne recalls thinking. Desiring a tie-breaker in any potential conflicts with Woz, Jobs enticed Wayne to become a partner in Apple by offering him 10 percent interest in the company. Despite the difference in their ages, Jobs and Wayne became casual friends and would often have philosophical discussions on the ethics of making money. Jobs was freelancing at Atari in the early 1970s when founder Nolan Kay Bushnell hired Wayne as chief draftsman (badge #395) for the video game maker. Ronald Gerald Wayne, Apple’s forgotten founder, seen here in a passport photo from 1975 (imprint of USA Department of State seal still evident). in Sunnyvale and Ron Wayne lived at 1900 California St. When Apple was founded, Steve Wozniak lived at 1618 Edmonton Ave. Just as Soviet propagandists doctored photos to remove party members who had fallen out of favor, Apple suffers from a convenient case of institutional amnesia by routinely ignoring the fact that when Apple was originally founded as a partnership on April Fools’ Day 1976, there were three founders: Woz, Jobs, and a fellow by the name of Ronald Gerald Wayne, 41. The bigger story here is that the two Steves weren’t alone in forming Apple. At that time he also learned he had a half-sister, writer Mona Simpson, who subsequently used Steve as a model for the main character in one of her recent books, A Regular Guy.Īfter moving out of Jobs’ garage, Apple Computer rented suite B3 at 20833 Stevens Creek Boulevard in Cupertino, then built 10260 Bandley Drive, which became known as Bandley One when occupied on January 28, 1978.Īpple started life in “the garage” of Steve Jobs’ parents on Crist Drive in Los Altos, California (inset: the exterior of the house as it is today).įor more info, or to order a copy, please visit It wasn’t until Steve was in his 30s that he met his birth mother. After five months, the family moved to South San Francisco and then Mountain View before settling in Los Altos. When they adopted Steve (born February 24, 1955), Paul and Clara Jobs lived at 1758 45th Avenue in San Francisco’s Sunset district. When the bedroom became too crowded, the operation did indeed move to the garage. That mere semantic distinction can be forgiven. (a machinist at Spectra Physics) and Clara (a payroll clerk at Varian). Actually, the operation began in a bedroom at 11161 Crist Drive in Los Altos (the house number changed to 2066 when the land was annexed from the county to the city in late 1983), where Jobs-after having dropped out of Reed College in Portland, Oregon-was living with his adoptive parents, Paul R. The Forgotten Founder Thanks to a never-ending campaign by Apple’s powerful public relations machine to protect the myths surrounding the company’s origin, almost everyone believes that Apple was started in a garage by “the two Steves,” Stephen Gary Wozniak, 25, and Steven Paul Jobs, 21.
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