At 16, Steve Jobs met his Apple co-founders, Steve Wozniak and Bill Fernandez 📲

The trio sold ‘blue boxes,’ phones that let users communicate long distances at no extra cost.

Five years later, the two Steves had dropped out of college and regularly attended microcomputer showcases 💻

Wozniak soon learned how to build a computer, and Jobs wanted to sell it!

They quit their jobs, and the computer became Apple I 🤔

Jobs suggested the name because it sounded approachable, fun and would get them the first slot in the phonebook.

The two Steves sold 50 computers to a local company called Byte Shop 🤑

The sale was a success, and soon 200 Apple I’s sold for $666.66 each!

Two years later, in 1977, Apple released its second computer, Apple II, and a music player, Disk II 🤯

6 million customers purchased the Apple II computers.

Following the release of Apple III, Apple went public in 1980 at $22 per share 💸

Apple had the largest IPO since Ford’s in 1956 and reached a market cap of $1.77B on the first day of trading!

In 1985, Apple suffered from heavy competition from IBM and some internal disagreements 😡

The release of the Macintosh in 1984 angered customers and investors.

The stress worsened the power struggle between John Scully, the newly appointed CEO at the time, and Steve Jobs

Soon, the two founders left Apple 🚪