
Millionaire Mania
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Millionaire Mania
Getting a company off the ground always requires sacrices, and in that
regard Apple was no different than any other. To scrape together the cost
of producing the original Apple I printed circuit board in 1976, Steve
Jobs parted with his red and white Volkswagen bus for $1,500 and Steve
Wozniak sold his beloved Hewlett-Packard 65 programmable calculator for
$250. The company was hobbling along at the beginning of 1977 when
retired businessman Mike Markkula poured $92,000 into Apple’s coffers
and secured a $250,000 line of credit at Bank of America.
The time and money each of the three sacrice ...