In 1976, Apple was founded using seed capital from the sales of Steve Jobs’ VW bus and Steve Wozniak’s HP calculator. Four years later, on December 12, 1980, Apple burst onto the most influential of all financial markets, the NASDAQ, at the same breathtaking rate that the company continued to hold throughout the early years of its existence. The issue price for a share was $2.75 (split adjusted); since then, the rate has increased more than sixtyfold. If you’ve been along for the ride since the beginning, you can sit back and relax, but you’ve certainly developed nerves of steel along the way.
Apple’s gold rush-type mood reached its climax with the development of the Apple Lisa (1983) and the Macintosh (1984), the first computers to focus on the person instead of the machine. The graphical user interface was revolutionary, but not completely new: Xerox had developed the technology for their own computers, but hadn’t actively pursued it. Apple secured the rights and developed the first commercial operating system.

We know that guy – would he still make the same claim today?