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Breaking Down Apple’s Success | Make Sense of Wozniak's Influence in 13 Minutes
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- Jun 28, 2026
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✎ Get free access to our vault of PDF summaries for every YouTube video here: https://believe.evancarmichael.com/the-vault ✎ Check out my NEWEST video: https://goo.gl/E0eE6m ✎ To get more details on all the research and studies mentioned in this video check out the articles below: https://www.startuparchive.org/p/steve-wozniak-explains-why-he-gave-10-million-of-his-own-shares-to-early-apple-employees-after-the-i ✎ Steve Wozniak’s story is one of fairness, gratitude, and doing what’s right. In this video, I talk about how Steve Wozniak quietly gave away $10 million of his own Apple stock so early employees like Daniel Kottke, Bill Fernandez, Chris Espinosa, and Randy Wigington could share in the success they helped build. While Steve Jobs decided not to give them stock during Apple’s 1980 IPO, Wozniak stepped in with what became the “W Plan,” letting around 80 early team members buy Apple shares from him at only $5 each. Those shares exploded in value over time, changing lives and making sure the people who built Apple’s foundation weren’t forgotten. ✎ You’ll also learn why some early Apple employees were left out of the IPO and how deeply it affected people like Kottke, who worked side by side with Jobs and Wozniak since the garage days. I walk through how Wozniak took it personally when loyal team members were ignored, and how his profit-sharing mindset came from his time at HP. He believed everyone who contributed—engineers, marketers, even young kids who wrote code in the early days—deserved to feel ownership in the company. His decision to give away his own shares wasn’t for recognition. He did it quietly, simply because it was fair. ✎ In the last part of the video, I break down the legacy of Wozniak’s generosity and why it still inspires leaders today. In a world…