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**William Hewlitt:** As a kid, Jobs enrolled in the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Club. There he saw engineers demonstrate new products, and he saw his first computer at the age of twelve. He was very impressed, and knew right away that he wanted to work with computers. While in high school, Jobs attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard plant. On one occasion he boldly asked William Hewlett (1931–2001), the president, for some parts he needed to complete a class project. Hewlett was so impressed he gave Jobs the parts, and offered him a summer internship at Hewlett-Packard.  Read more: [|Steve Jobs Biography - life, family, story, history, school, young, information, born, college, house, time, year] [|http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ho-Jo/Jobs-Steve.html#b#ixzz1olDjjFIr] Steve Jobs had a longstanding friendship with filmmaker George Lucas. George sold Pixar Studios to Steve, who almost singlehandedly turned it into a billion dollar concern before selling it to Disney.
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They met when Steve Jobs was sixteen and Steve Wozniak was twenty-one years old and both had summer jobs at Hewlitt-Packard. They were also both members of an engineering/electronics called Homebrew. Each of them sold some of their more valuable personal items in order to pool the money to start Apple, Inc. Without Wozniak, it is unlikely that Apple's first computer would have been remotely as successful.
 * Steve Wozniak: **