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"Steve Jobs wanted a company, and did it. And I was his resource!" Wozniak told Pogue. Wozniak built a rudimentary computer, and Jobs immediately suggested they start selling it. And they did! While they sold a meager 150 of Wozniak's first project, his second was the iconic Apple II, which went on to sell 6 million.
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But Wozniak's genius wasn't enough to keep Apple thriving without Jobs' visionary leadership. When Jobs left the company in 1985 following a clash with then-CEO John Sculley, Apple spent more than a decade sliding backwards. Now-CEO Tim Cook tells Pogue it was "bleak," the company had no direction and "very little cash."
Steve Jobs, John Sculley, and Steve WozniakGetty
Cook remembers being immediately in awe of Jobs. "I saw in Steve something I'd never seen in a CEO before. He is a once-in-a-thousand-years kind of person," he explained. And the feeling with seemingly mutual.
Jobs was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer in October 2003, and battled it for years before resigning in Aug. 24, 2011, less than two months before hie October 5 death. Before that, he asked Cook specifically to be his successor.
Apple: The First 50 Years is set to be released on March 10.
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