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book1984

The Little Kingdom

Disciplines:
technology
biography
apple
business history

Summary

Michael Moritz's 1984 account of Apple Computer's founding and early years — written from direct access to Jobs, Wozniak, and other key figures — which is the most detailed account of Apple's founding available from a contemporary observer.

Core Contribution

Provides the primary first-person journalistic record of Apple's founding — Jobs and Wozniak's relationship, the Homebrew Computer Club context, the role of Mike Markkula, and the intense personal dynamics of the early company — from a journalist who had direct access before Apple became a cultural icon.

Historical Influences

Michael Moritz

Intellectual Lineage

Technology Journalism Apple History

Allied Works

Return to the Little Kingdom Steve Jobs Creative Selection

Contemporaries & Peers

Steve Jobs iWoz

Minds Influenced

Founders podcast Apple content Apple historical scholarship

Intellectual Posterity

The Little Kingdom

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