Men Behind Apple

The Founders

Steve Jobs - is one of the original founders of Apple, along with two others. He worked with Apple since its conception up to the point where he was removed of his managerial duties due to infighting that prompted him to resign and form another company, Nextel. His company was eventually purchased by Apple and he was re installed as an advisor and later was reinstated as the CEO of the company. He was credited for bringing Apple back into the game and is the head man of Apple, Inc. until now.

Steve Wozniak - is one of the original founders of Apple, along with two others. He is a computer engineer and inventor who built the Apple I and II, the first computer sold by Apple. He is the technical guy in the team and when Apple was founded he worked as the vice - president for research and development. He ended his full time employment at Apple in 1987 but remains a shareholder to date.

Ronald Wayne - is often referred to as the "third founder" of Apple. He designed the first Apple logo and wrote the Apple 1 manual. Upon co - founding Apple, he had 10% of the stocks in the new company, which he sold only two weeks later. He found the venture too risky and opted not to risk his personal assets in a potential losing situation. He did not have an inkling then that his shares would rise to billions of dollars a year later. To date, Wayne works as an engineer for a defense contractor company in California.

Mike Markkula - While Steve and John provided the brains and the youth in Apple, and Wayne gave in experience and engineering insights, it was this multi - millionaire who made it possible for the fledgling venture to grow into a global conglomerate that it is now. He provided and raised the much needed money as well as managerial support to Apple. He later became CEO of the company. Today, he continues to fund new companies and also continues to make more millions out of them.

Apple Fellows

Guy Kawasaki - worked with Apples in marketing its first computers and advocated the apple evangelism. That is creating passionate uses of Apple products as a marketing strategy. And it must have worked well for Apple judging from the many Apple loyalists to date. He is also known as a business legend for having been successful in many start up businesses he founded and assisted.

Bill Atkinson - is a computer engineer and photographer who was part of the team that built Macintosh, Apple's most successful computer unit. He is the maker of the ground breaking MacPaint application. He also designed QuickDraw, a toolbox that is used in Macintosh for graphics.

Jef Raskin is a human computer interface expert, he is credited for starting the Macintosh project along with his student, Bill Atkinson. He worked as head of publications in Apple and left Apple in 1982.