(Newswire.net — December 5, 2014) — For decades, Apple Company has stood as a poster for the American dream; one of the biggest companies in the world, started in a garage of the cofounder Steve Jobs. The first Apple 1 personal computer creator and Apple Co. cofounder Steve Wozniak revealed in Bloomberg Businessweek Anniversary Special short film that famous ‘garage story’ was not entirely truth.
“The garage is a bit of a myth. The garage is overblown,” Wozniak said. “The garage represents us better than anything else, but we did no designs there. We would drive the finished products into a garage, made them work, than drove them down to the store that paid us cash,” he said in a film.
After all, a fine modern company needs the legend of bootstrapped pain, dripping roofs and hordes of chilly engineers. However, Wozniak said it was never like that.
“There were hardly ever more than two people in the garage. Mostly they were just sitting around kind of doing nothing productive,” he said.
“We outgrew that garage very quickly,” Wozniak explained.
Pointing out that creating a computer was his high school dream, Wozniak said he was “very much a geek.”
“I was a social outsider, I ddn’t look at the world in normal ways when I was young,” he said.
Wozniak said when Steve Jobs came in town and saw what he made for fun, he somehow turn this for money for both of them.
The production price was around $250; however, the store was selling first Apple computers for 666 dollars. Soon, the Apple II was created and the company started to earn serious income.