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hugh on July 18, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Who's Going to Fund the Next Steve Jobs?

How is the next Steve Jobs going to produce millions of hardware units without funding?

petercooper on July 18, 2008 [–]

Apple didn't have any for the Apple I. Jobs secured orders from a computer store who paid up-front. This money was then used to produce the machines.

Funding did, of course, follow quite quickly from this for the Apple II.

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