Steve Jobs (co-founder Pixar) is the CEO of Apple, which he co-founded with Steve Wozniak on April fools day 1976. Originally they just made computers, now the company is now well known for a mobile phone, and of course the iPod media player. They’ve sold over 110 million iPods, so the Touch comes [...]

In the early years of the 1960s Celestron (originally Valor Electronics) was created when Tom Johnson, who couldn’t find a decent telescope for his sons, built one from scratch. What was labor of love for his children became his business. The company developed an inexpensive way to produce Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes, and in [...]

Tivo, (originally named Teleworld) was founded in 1997, by Jim Barton and Mike Ramsay. They extended the idea of a VCR to recording on a hard disk, and the new feature set revolutionized watching TV. Started in the San Francisco bay area, testing began in 1998, and they had their IPO in 1999. [...]