Watch: Little-Known Apple Co-Founder Ronald Wayne To Appear At Tonight’s Event
After the release of his new book Apple: The First 50 Yearstech columnist David Pogue runs the Apple at 50: Fifty Years of Different Thinking event to be held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California tonight.
The event will be streamed live on YouTube for free, starting at 7pm Pacific Time.
“From the early days of garages in the 1970s, to the rise of the Macintosh in the 1980s, to the transformation of Apple in the 2000s with the iPhone, the show will explore how Apple redefined itself while holding on to a different vision,” the Computer History Museum said, in a description of the YouTube broadcast.
The event will include speakers from across the many eras of Apple, including:
- John Sculley: CEO of Apple from 1983 to 1993
- Chris Espinosa: Apple’s longest serving employee
- Avie Tevanian: Former Apple Software Technology executive
- Jon Rubinstein: Apple’s former SVP of Hardware Engineering (appears in video)
Pogue a CBS Sunday morning author, and spent many years writing about Apple and technology The New York Times again Macworld.
On social media, Pogue said the event will also include Ronald Wayne, the third unknown co-founder of Apple along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. It is not clear whether Wayne will personally attend the event or whether he will speak.
Wayne sold his 10% stake in Apple back to Jobs and Wozniak 12 days after the company was founded in 1976, to avoid financial risk. His stake in the company would be worth hundreds of billions of dollars today.
The live stream is below.
Pogue said that there will be seven key Apple figures participating in the event, so there should be two more beyond the names listed above. Maybe it’s surprising.
The Computer History Museum has Apple on page 50 with a timeline of the company’s history, old photos, interviews, rare prototypes, and more.
Pogue’s book Apple: The First 50 Years available in hardcover and digital format.
In time for Apple’s 50th anniversary on April 1, 2026, the 608-page book examines the first five decades of the company’s history. Pogue interviewed 150 key people who shaped Apple into what it is today, including Wozniak, Sculley, former chief design officer Jony Ive, and others.
The book provides “new facts that set the record straight”:
Over the course of 50 years of Apple, CBS Sunday Morning reporter David Pogue tells the entire life story of the iconic company: how it was born, almost died, was reborn under Steve Jobs, and became, under CEO Tim Cook, the most important company in the world. The book features full-color photos, new facts that set the record straight and shed light on its revolutionary culture, and new interviews with famous people who have shaped Apple into what it is today.
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