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  1. Engineer. Known for. Apple Inc. employee #4 who first introduced Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak; a member of the Apple Macintosh development team. Bill Fernandez is a user-interface architect and innovator who was Apple Computer 's first full time employee when they incorporated in 1977 and was issued badge number 4.

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    Silicon Valley created Bill Fernandez. His parents met at Stanford University. They moved to Sunnyvale when he was five, and he spent his entire childhood growing up in that community, in a house that his mother decorated in a minimalist Japanese style that reflected her background in Far East Studies at Stanford. The Fernandez family’s Eichler hou...

    It wasn’t long after he introduced Jobs and Wozniak that Fernandez noticed the two of them hanging out on their own. They collaborated on two things: electronics projects and practical jokes. Eventually, the two of them starting working on professional projects together when Jobs landed a gig with Noah Bushnell at Atari and enlisted help from Wozni...

    After leaving the component maker, Fernandez took his life in a completely different direction. He got out of technology. He searched for bigger meaning. He left the country. “I have always had too many interests,” he said. One of those interests was the martial arts. Fernandez was a brown belt in Aikido, a Japanese form of the martial arts that is...

  2. Dec 26, 2016 · Bill Fernandez first met Steve Jobs at Cupertino Junior High School when Jobs was a new student. Fernandez was also a neighbor and friend of Steve Wozniak. Here's how Fernandez describes it...

  3. Dec 5, 2014 · Fernandez, who helped build the first Apple I and Apple II computers and is credited with introducing Jobs and Wozniak, shares some details on working with a young Steve Jobs, the early days of...

  4. Dec 5, 2014 · By Chuong H Nguyen. published 5 December 2014. In a rare interview, Apple's first employee, Bill Fernandez, opened up about working with Steve Jobs, his role in building the Apple II computer, and how he played matchmaker to introduce Jobs to co-founder Steve Wozniak.

  5. Apr 1, 2019 · Bill Fernandez is the first official full-time employee at Apple and a UI expert. He shares his insights on the current state of user interfaces, the challenges of flat design, the future of AR and VR, and the sci-fi visions of the future. He also talks about Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, and his predictions for the next generation of computing.

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  7. Aug 8, 2002 · About Bill Fernandez. Bill Fernandez is known in the Apple world as Apple Employee number 1 and a big part of what Apple has become today. As one of the people who has been instrumental in their growth and development, his insights into what Apple is provides a good basis for those of us who were on the outside looking in.

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