“Apple’s co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak generally get most of the credit for the company’s early success, but according to Wozniak, there’s another occasionally overlooked figure who really deserves the credit,” Seth Fiegerman reports for The Business Insider.

“‘Mike Markkula was actually the one man and one person who made Apple a successful company,’ Wozniak said Friday at a business lecture in Australia, according to Perth Now,” Fiegerman reports. “Markkula was a key figure in Apple’s early days, bankrolling the company in the beginning with a $250,000 investment, convincing Wozniak to work at Apple instead of HP and even writing some software for one of Apple’s first computers. But it wasn’t the investment or the coaching that Wozniak called out in his lecture, so much as the way Markkula fundamentally changed the company’s business strategy early on.”

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