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Steve Wozniak says Steve Jobs Formed Apple Knowing They'd Lose Money ... from 1984

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Steve Wozniak says Steve Jobs Formed Apple Knowing They'd Lose Money

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak describes the very first circuit boards he and Steve Jobs built to sell to members of the Hombrew computing club. It would take 50 people to buy the circuit boards to break even.

Steve Jobs: 'Yea, we'll lose our money, but at least we'll have a company.' Woz thought that sounded like a great reason to go ahead. This is part of a speech recorded Oct. 4, 1984 at the Colorado School of Mines as Wozniak spoke to the Denver Apple Pi computer club.