As Apple turns 50 years old, it wasn't the tech giant that made Steve Jobs a billionaire--but rather his $10 million bet on Pixar, long before the introduction of the iPhone.
Apple was founded 50 years ago today, on April 1, 1976, by two scruffy twentysomethings named Steve--Steve Jobs and Steve "Woz" Wozniak--but not in a garage, as legend has it. On that date, Ron Wayne, a 41-year-old senior designer whom Jobs met at ...
In 1976, 14-year-old Chris Espinosa rode a moped to his job demonstrating computers made in Steve Jobs's childhood home. The company has changed a bit since then.
Founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple officially incorporated on April 1, 1976. The company helped usher in the era of personal computing, pairing meticulous design with tight hardware-software integration and a simple promise: "It just ...