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Oh yay!... "Team with an idea seeks VC douchebag hunting for unicorns"... this whole phenomenon is a soiled and obnoxious cultural toilet, which has twisted and mutilated innovation and entrepreneurship beyond even the most Jager-blinded vision of what might be considered "attractive". May they all pop off this mortal coil in a cocaine fuelled, onanistic IPO...

Which I guess is another way of saying; "I won't be tuning in, thanks."
 
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I love seeing Woz in the spotlight getting the recognition he so richly deserves. He single-handedly invented the personal computer as we know it. He deserves, at the bare minimum, just as much recognition as Steve Jobs.
It is a shame he didn't keep working at Apple doing new things. Maybe it was just the business / politics part took away the fun of creating new things. For example, company stuff like TPS reports and entering how many hours put in for projects, and dealing with project managers that ask "When are you going to have that done?".
 
I can’t imagine there is a big audience for this. Who would be in the target demographics? Seems like it would be no different from all the talking heads (shills) on various news channels giving “financial advice”.
 
Maybe they can revive "Planet of the Apps" and team up - Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy-style.
 
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i get queasy when i see all this talk about valuations that are completely meaningless since they are totally dependent on the fed balance sheet going vertical. really sick & twisted as the poor and lower middle class see their lives destroyed.
we need another good crisis to get apple to a $10t market cap.
 
Where does Mark Cuban fit in all of this, he will be good at it. As he does on Shark Tank.
 
Uh, no, we definitely don't get an equal chance at investing in these companies. If they're still private, that means only accredited investors can invest in them. IIRC, to be an accredited investor you are legally required to make $300K/year and/or to have $3M in assets.

Anyone can invest in a public company, but there's much stricter rules on investing in private companies. Too strict, I think... I understand that they don't want financially illiterate people to be able to waste their life savings (but then why are those same people allowed to gamble?) but it seems like this goal could be achieved with a much lower barrier to entry.

I am admittedly a bit illiterate when it comes to finance and investing, but it seems counter-intuitive that it would be harder for a private person to invest in a private company. Who is regulating this? I thought that companies that are private are not subject to things the SEC rules.
 
Hey Woz, NO offense, but this reminds me of "... rapping to stay relevant"

Anyway, IMO, it would be MUCH smarter for You to focus on the 1K OR so UN-Discovered Gem Apps here in the U.S. App Store !

You want to stick it to Apple ?

That would do it !

You could even Recruit an Army of individuals to help you Dig Out such UN-Discovered Gem Apps !

And, you ONLY need ONE Prime Example to get the Ball Rolling.

NOT Rocket Science, Apple has a Complete & Total Stranglehold on "App Discovery".

If you help break that Stranglehold you will become a Rock Star !
 
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It’s funny, they want a content provider to acquire the (paying them huge $ for the concept) then paying them for each episode & reruns cause they are never satisfied with their current wealth. That makes me laugh, and if the show was legit, why would they need that?
 
This is too much disrespect for Wozniak. This guy is literally a human history famous person, the history books will remember him as the guy(or one of the guys) that created the personal computers and the first company in history to hit $1T and $2T in valuation. No Woz, no Apple.

He will be remembered just as we remember Aristotle, Newton, and Edison.
 
Whatever talent Woz had is long, long gone. Though you have to give him credit for trading on the one good and big thing he did over 40 years ago.
The talent isn’t gone, the era is. Like watching athletes from half a century ago. They’re no less talented than players today, but the game has changed.

Woz was a genius in his time. Like many technologists, the tech may have accelerated past him because people are linear and technology its geometric, but in that moment he did remarkable things and he let Jobs ride his coattails. It’s very likely there’d be no Steve Jobs if there’d been no Steve Wozniak. Maybe Jobs would have found someone else almost as talented that would do his homework for him, but it’s more likely he wouldn’t have.
 
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Did he really?

He was important for the Apple I and II... but how important were those, besides the fact that without them, there is no Apple?

It seems like the Mac is much more historically significant, but I don't think Woz was involved with that.
Yeah Woz is a nice guy but single-handedly is a bit too much. I don't think Woz is relevant since Macintosh introduced.
 
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