Mike Markkula

Markkula had retired from Intel's marketing department in his early thirties when he met Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976. He put in about 250,000 dollars as equity and loans, wrote the first business plan, recruited Mike Scott as the first professional chief executive and set out principles on marketing and focus that shaped early Apple. He was its third employee and later chairman, and is rarely mentioned in the founding story.