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)