Steve Wozniak

Strategic Concepts & Mechanics

Signature MoveThirteen-Hour Meeting as Onboarding Ritual

Relationship LeverageFoxconn's Loss-Leader-to-Lock-In Playbook

Risk DoctrineTacit Knowledge as Accidental Export

Competitive AdvantageApple Squeeze: Invaluable Experience Over Margin

Identity & CultureVerbal Jujitsu Procurement Culture

Signature MoveDesign the Impossible Then Manufacture the Impossible

Signature MoveFifty Business Class Seats Daily to Shenzhen

Operating PrincipleZero Inventory as Theological Doctrine

Strategic PatternUnconstrained Design Not Cost Arbitrage

Cornerstone MoveSecret $275 Billion Kowtow to Keep the Machine Running

Signature MoveSilk Tie Competitions to Train Negotiators

Cornerstone MoveScrew It, iTunes for Windows

Cornerstone MoveBuy the Machines, Own the Factory Floor Without Owning a Factory

Signature MoveDrive Off the Cliff to Prove the Brakes Don't Work

Cornerstone MoveTrain Everyone Then Pit Them Against Each Other

Risk DoctrineRule By Law as Corporate Leash

Decision FrameworkBig Potato Small Potato: Positional Power Over Fairness

Identity & CultureCalifornia Sky Entrepreneurship

Signature MoveNever Judge Wealth by Appearance

Cornerstone MoveUpgrade the Stage, Keep the Craft Pure

Competitive AdvantagePartner Who Covers Your Blind Spot

Signature MoveCounter as Fixed-Point Observatory

Strategic PatternHideout Prestige Over Visible Location

Signature MoveSeating Diplomacy as Silent Service

Cornerstone MoveBootstrap Through Regulars, Not Location

Competitive AdvantageEarly IT Adoption for Analog Business

Signature MoveCelebrity Treated as Regular Customer

Operating PrincipleCombine Experience With Theory

Identity & CulturePaper Napkin Ideas Over Boardrooms

Relationship LeverageKunto: Invisible Influence Over Time

Strategic PatternObsession Follows Admiration

Primary Evidence

"Apple itself could have played this dominant role; in fact, it *had* played this role. At the behest of Steve Wozniak—overruling Jobs—the Apple II featured an open architecture with eight expansion slots and a floppy drive. This allowed third-party software and hardware companies to build applications for it, widening its appeal beyond hobbyists and gamers to the workplace. That openness gave rise, in October 1979, to a breakthrough digital spreadsheet tool, VisiCalc, the first “killer app” for personal computers. Along with EasyWriter, an early word processor, VisiCalc helped transform the Apple II from a plaything to a workhorse."

Source:Apple in China

"About two weeks later, by coincidence, Apple’s other founder, Steve Wozniak, also came to the sushi restaurant. Woz, who even back then looked like a bear, sat at the counter and nibbled on sushi. Dressed in a white shirt, Woz exuded an aura, making me wonder if he was a Hollywood star."

Source:Steve Jobs' Chef (translated)

Appears In Volumes

Apple in China Steve Jobs' Chef (translated)