Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak's best friends who love to pull pranks together and talk about electronics. After a few small partnership work resins Wozniak about running the company together to sell computers based on Wozniak design for personal computers. Wozniak faces decisions on how to quit a job he loved in the Hewlett-Packard to join Apple Computer, how to define its role in Apple, whether to take on the job as his co-founder, whether to adopt the third co-founder of vacancies and how to share capital from its co-founders. Previously, they add to an outside investor, which changes the trajectory of the company and that brings in a new CEO. Later, tensions rise between the two founders as a strategic visions diverge and as the company grows. Wozniak now learned some disturbing news about his co-founder and has to decide what news will affect his future cooperation with Jobs. "Hide
by Noam Wasserman Source: Harvard Business School 8 pages. Publication Date: 01 Oct 2008. Prod. #: 809063-PDF-ENG
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