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From KQED.

Welcome to Forum.

I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Apple has an incredible Silicon Valley lineage.

Going back to the start, both Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were steeped, truly steeped in the culture of technology

companies that came to surround the Stanford campus.

Wozniak's father worked for Lockheed missiles and space, a defense contractor that was a huge

employer in the proto-Silican Valley economy, and Jobs for his part united the countercultural

elements that contributed to the Bay Area's cachet, like the Whole Earth Catalog, with the corporate sensibility of companies like Hewlett Packard.

Jobs was literally a guy who cold called Bill Hewlett and ended up working on the company's assembly line.

Given the emerging homebrew computer and electronics ecosystem springing up in Northern California,

the two steves could not have created Apple many other places in the world,

and perhaps more importantly, the two steves with their backgrounds and contacts and worldviews

almost certainly could not have existed anywhere else in the world.

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