The Bay Area Newsgroup reports on Steve Wozniak’s new interview with longtime Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki on Kawasaki’s Remarkable People podcast. Woz reveals he’s still on the Apple payroll — he never left it — and he’s still receiving about $50 a week “out of loyalty. Because what could I do that’s more important in my life?”
Woz also remembered how the ways he’d differed from Steve Jobs made them a complementary pair:
“I had a lot of values about disdaining money. I had the computer skills, the engineering skills. Steve had electronics knowledge, to a decent level. He could understand us (engineers), but he couldn’t design things. He hung on to the marketing principles — how do things look to the eye, that kind of beauty. And turning my design, the Apple II, into a product…
“From the day we met, he was talking about people who changed humanity forever,” Wozniak said. “He wanted to be one of them. He wanted to be that important person in life. This was his big chance. Now he was founder of a company. That’s a title….”
“His personality changed the day that he was founder of a company with big money,” Wozniak said. “He had been a fun guy, go running off to concerts with me, chasing concert paraphernalia, driving around, playing pranks. We had a lot of fun times. He all of a sudden disdained that,” Wozniak said. “Didn’t want to talk about jokes, fun, kid things. Only (in a) business suit, talking business talk, learning how to speak it. He got kind of strict and wanted to make sure the world got a message. That all the computer thinking came from him.”
Still, Wozniak said Jobs’ new personality didn’t bother him, or have an effect on what he wanted to do at Apple. “I didn’t care a bit,” Wozniak said. “He was kind of like the smartest person in the room. Steve was getting what he wanted. I got what I wanted, a lab to run into even late at night. I was very much allowed to be the inventor.”
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