Steve Jobs famously hired Steve Wozniak to build the arcade circuit board for Atari's Breakout in 1975, promising to split the five thousand dollar bonus if the chip count was reduced.

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Steve Jobs famously hired Steve Wozniak to build the arcade circuit board for Atari's Breakout in 1975, promising to split the five thousand dollar bonus if the chip count was reduced. Jobs ended up pocketing almost all of the money and told his best friend the bonus was only seven hundred dollars, establishing the core foundation of Silicon Valley ethics. Before Apple was even a glimmer in their eyes, Jobs was already perfectly demonstrating the visionary CEO tactic of shamelessly exploiting actual engineering talent for maximum personal profit. It is comforting to know that the tech industry has not changed a bit in fifty years, and the time-honored tradition of taking credit for your introverted friend's hard work remains the absolute gold standard for startup success