When we talk about Apple, there are two names that quickly come to mind, one of them clearly is Steve Jobs and the other is Steve Wozniak, both are the founders of Apple, But there is another person, Bill Fernandez, who also played an important role in helping build Apple as we know it.
Bill Fernandez was the first employee Apple hadHe was a friend of Steve Jobs and is considered the person who introduced Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, now thanks to an interview obtained by Techrepublic we can learn more.
Bill fernandez joined the company in 1977He helped build the first Apple I and also the Apple II, in the interview he talks about many topics, such as what Apple was and his relationship with Steve Jobs.
When Jobs moved to the same school district as Bill, which led to both of them going to the same school, Fernandez remarks that quickly there was a great rapport, arguing different reasons why this happened:
“We were both nerds, we had a quick connection, neither of us had an interest in the superficial foundations that other children had, which were based on their relationships, we had no particular interest in the shallow life that is lived to be accepted. So we didn't have many friends. "
In the interview, Bill says that Jobs spent a lot of time at his house, his mother had it decorated with a "meticulous Japanese style", Fernandez links this with a early influence on Steve Jobs' interest in minimalist design.
Close friend of Steve Wozniak, he was the one who introduced the founders of Apple, for later get hired as an electronic technician, without a doubt a person with very interesting stories to tell and secrets to reveal, if you want to read the interview you can do it at Tech Republic.