Smart Business Magazine, December 2014

12 Smart Business Cincinnati Northern Kentucky Winter 2014 What I would like to do is go back to the beginning prior to you co founding Apple Computer and have you share with us how you got into engineering I had one of those elementary school projects that now I look back on and say whoa that was the equivalent of a masters degree at a university and I didnt even know it To me they were just the most fun projects I was kind of great in electronics because electronics was an analog science You had to learn difficult mathematical equations formulas and design things with all these little parts that fit together So I was very good at that I had a ham radio license in sixth grade That was when you had to bolt together a bunch of parts You had instructions on how to bolt them together solder all the wires and run the little strings to tune in your receiver and transmitter I was an early guy in analog electronics but somehow I also discovered digital In high school we didnt have computers but I had a great electronics teacher who said education is outside the school too I got to go down once a week to Sylvania in Sunnyvale and program a computer I was like in my mind the star of my school Of course I was a nerd an outsider because I was an electronics geek But I got to go program a real computer So I never had a book I never had a class I just had pencil and paper and tried to formulate methods to design a computer out of the smaller parts the little chips that were available I did it for You have to convince yourself that you are right and the rest of the world doesnt ever have to agree with you Fred Koury president and CEO of Smart Business Network Inc interviewing Steve Wozniak at EO Thrive 2014 in Cleveland