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  1. Bill Fernandez is a user-interface architect and innovator who was Apple Computer's first full time employee when they incorporated in 1977 and was issued badge number 4. He is the son of Jeryy Fernandez and Bambi Fernandez (both Stanford University graduates).

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    Silicon Valley created Bill Fernandez. His parents met at Stanford University. They moved to Sunnyvale when he was five, and he spent his entire childhood growing up in that community, in a house that his mother decorated in a minimalist Japanese style that reflected her background in Far East Studies at Stanford. The Fernandez family’s Eichler hou...

    It wasn’t long after he introduced Jobs and Wozniak that Fernandez noticed the two of them hanging out on their own. They collaborated on two things: electronics projects and practical jokes. Eventually, the two of them starting working on professional projects together when Jobs landed a gig with Noah Bushnell at Atari and enlisted help from Wozni...

    After leaving the component maker, Fernandez took his life in a completely different direction. He got out of technology. He searched for bigger meaning. He left the country. “I have always had too many interests,” he said. One of those interests was the martial arts. Fernandez was a brown belt in Aikido, a Japanese form of the martial arts that is...

  2. Dec 5, 2014 · Bill Fernandez was the first full-time employee of Apple, hired by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1977. He helped design the Apple I and Apple II computers, but left the company after 18 months due to lack of growth and stock options.

  3. 1 day ago · Bill Fernandez was also hired at Apple at a relatively young age, and he went on to work on projects such as the Apple-I, Apple-II, Macintosh, and multiple software projects. "Introduced the ...

  4. Bill Fernandez met Apple's co-founder in the seventh grade. Ten years later, he became the tech giant's first employee.

  5. William "Bill" Fernandez was the first employee to join Apple Computer, after its original co-founders. Fernandez attended Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, where he met future Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. He had also met Steve Jobs in Cupertino Junior High School.

  6. Bill Fernandez was the first employee at Apple and worked on the Mac, QuickTime, HyperCard and more. He shares his insights on user interfaces, flat design, sci-fi technologies and the challenges of hardware limitations.