Earlier this morning, in a post about Daniel Kottke and his split with Steve Jobs, I concluded with:
I wish the interview was longer. I was really interested in hearing more about Kottke’s experience at Apple. Wondering what those various boards were that he was showing off. I bet Woz knows.
Thanks to Twitter, I got my wish. Check out the video on this page [Autoplay warning, but worth it], in which Daniel Kottke gives us a nice guided tour of the very first prototype Mac mother boards. Lovely.
[H/T CNNTech’s Jack Regan]
This is worth reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kottke
“Steve Jobs, however, refused to grant Kottke stock in the new company, stating that he “will give him zero” (Steve Wozniak would later give Daniel some of his own shares in Apple).[9] In her memoir of her life with Jobs, Chrisann Brennan states that she later asked Kottke about not receiving the stock options and that he replied: “Oh that […] Steve had offered me a job in marketing […] but I wasn’t interested in marketing because I had something like a fever to understand the technology […] so I never pursued the marketing opportunity.”[7]
In addition, in 1982 when Time Magazine featured a major, but unflattering, profile of Jobs that actually made him cry, he publicly “berated” Kottke for confirming the fact to Time that he had a daughter, Lisa Brennan, whom he had basically abandoned.”