Apple was founded nearly 50 years ago on April 1, 1976, and no one would have imagined they'd eventually become one of the most ubiquitous technology companies in the modern world—including the company's cofounder, Steve Wozniak. The father of modern computers met Steve Jobs five years earlier on the a sidewalk in Cupertino, and the rest was history.
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"Who was to know there was gonna be a company in the future?" Wozniak told CBS Good Morning's David Pogue for his upcoming book Apple: The First 50 Years. Wozniak was a 21-year-old engineering prodigy at the time, and Jobs was still a 16-year-old high school student, but he had a vision.
"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.
"It was so far above any of the other computers coming out!" Wozniak said of the shocking success. "We didn't foresee the future, the way it turned out. But we said, 'For today, we're taking a step forward ahead of others.'"
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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
That changed when Jobs returned in 1997, shook things up by cancelling all but two products in development, and hired Cook to be his right hand as the head of operations.
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.
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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.
"He called me over to his house," Cook recalled. "And his advice to me was, 'Never ask what I would do. Just do the right thing.' And I'll never forget that."
Apple: The First 50 Years is set to be released on March 10.
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