We all know about the heights
that Apple has reached today, but not many of us know that even if Steve Jobs
was the driving force behind Apple, there was a wonderful team of talented
people to support him.This first 10 Apple employee list
is prepared by Business Insider and the first Apple CEO Michael Scott. BI
writes about the employee list, “The Apple employee numbers aren’t the order
each person joined the company.” Actually, when the first Apple CEO Michael
Scott came to the company, he gave out numbers to each employee to make the
“life easier for the payroll department.”
- Steve
Wozniak- Technical Expert
Wozniak considered taking
the job offer at HP in Oregon, as he was under the impression that Apple would
crash someday. Later, he left Apple. However, these days he’s busy bashing Steve Jobs as
the consultant to the new movie on Jobs’ life.
2.Steve
Jobs
Apple’s first CEO Michael Scott, tells
why he didn’t give number 1 position to him. He says, “I know I didn’t give it
to Jobs because I thought that would be too much.”
In 1977, Jobs and Wozniak were
successful in shipping their first computer, which was a naked circuit board
called Apple. It didn’t have a keyboard or a screen. Whatever followed is now
history.
3. Mike Markulla – The money man
Mike Markulla was the venture
capitalist who provided Apple’s first proper funding. He also installed real
management. He made an investment in Apple worth $250,000, in exchange of which
he took 30% shares of the company. He stayed at Apple until 1997 and left when
Jobs came back.
4. Bill Fernandez – First Employee
Of Apple
Fernandez was also a neighbor and
friend of Steve Wozniak. He stayed with Apple until 1993, after which he
started working at Ingres, a database company.
5.Rod Holt- The
Chief Scientist
Holt invented the switching power
supply that allowed them to do a very lightweight computer compared to others
who used transformers. Holt later joined Apple full time.Holt was the Chief
Engineer and Vice President of Engineering during most the reign of the Apple
II. From contributing to floppy disk, the switching power supply, and radio
interference problems to receiving four patents for his work, Holt played a
major role in Apple II.
6.Randy Wigginton
In 1977, Wigginton collaborated
with Wozniak on the circuit design and ROM software for the Apple II. Wigginton
wrote machine language graphics subroutines and several early programs for the
Apple II.
7. Michael Scott – First CEO of Apple
Michael Scott was the first CEO
of Apple Computer from February 1977 to March 1981. He was the former director
of manufacturing at National Semiconductor.
As Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, both
were inexperienced for the post of CEO, hence Scott was persuaded for the post
by Markkula. Scott declared that there
would be no typewriters at Apple. Scott
left Apple officially on July 10, 1981.
8. Chris Espinosa
In 1976, the 14-year-old Espinosa
was only 14 years old when he began working for Apple, making him one of the
company’s youngest employees.
He began writing BASIC programs
in Jobs’ garage, and has worked in a variety of different positions during his
time at Apple- including Mac OS, A/UX, HyperCard etc. He has worked in Apple
for his entire life.
9. Sherry Livingston – Right hand of
Apple’s first CEO
She was the first secretary at
Apple. She was hired by Michael Scott. In the early days, she did all the odds
and ends work at Apple.
10. Gary Martin
After staying at Apple till 1983,
Martin switched to Starstruck, which is a company working on space travel and
kept moving from one CFO to another in different companies.
SOURCE : fossbytes.com
