Company Background
Founder Steve Jobs Apple Computer was founded in Mountain View, California, on April l, 1976, by SteveJobs and Steve Wozniak. Jobs was the visionary and marketer, Wozniak was the technical genius, and A. C. "Mike" Markkula, Jr., who had joined the team several months earlier, was the businessman. Jobs set the mission of empowering individuals, one person-one computer, and doing so with elegance of design and fierce attention to detail. ln 1977 the first version of the Apple II became the first computer ordinary people could use right out of the box, and its instant success in the home market caused a computing revolution, essentially creating the personal computer industry. By 1980 Apple was the industry leader and went public in December of that year.