Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U

Re:Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U by agumonkey on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:42PM (#15468247)

Woz likes teaching I'd be surprised he sold his name for nothing else but money.

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Re:Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U by Arjuna on Friday October 13, 2017 @04:15PM (#15468908)

"Woz likes teaching I'd be surprised he sold his name for nothing else but money."

I feel the same way. This is part of what he had to say in a comment [1] he wrote in 2013, discussing the then-released Jobs film. It absolutely speaks volumes about his character:

"And when Jobs (in the movie, but really a board does this) denied stock to the early garage team (some not even shown) I'm surprised that they chose not to show me giving about $10M of my own stock to them because it was the right thing. And $10M was a lot in that time."

I was unable to link to his comment directly. Also, I had to click the "View previous comments" link in order to view his comment.

[1] https://plus.google.com/+CarmsPerez/posts/GnVTvQNgvpf

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Re:Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U by nipponese on Friday October 13, 2017 @04:29PM (#15469015)

The issue isn't money, it's his idealism that leads to gullibility. For example, check out his involvement with a multi-level marketing scheme called "People Helping People". I'm sure Woz loves the idea of a low cost universal education source, but he often skips the diligence required to figure out if these things are scams or not.

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Re:Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U by agumonkey on Friday October 13, 2017 @05:05PM (#15469224)

More than a naive lack of check, what I meant is that Woz clearly explained he loved teaching the beauty of engineering, so I'd expect he would be part of the board and teachers.

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Re:Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U by mgiannopoulos on Sunday October 15, 2017 @09:49AM (#15477091)

"often skips" implies a multiple occurrence. Do you have more examples of this?

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Re:Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U by sundvor on Friday October 13, 2017 @08:03PM (#15469963)

Thanks for that link, I hadn't seen this before. Very insightful to read the words of Woz on this; inspires such great respect.

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Re:Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U by mathattack on Sunday October 15, 2017 @12:31AM (#15475895)

I don't know much about Woz, but I do know he lives in the Bay Area and this company is headquartered in Arizona. I hope it goes well!

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Re:Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U by salqadri on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:54PM (#15468331)

Uhh; read this from the article: "And if that weren’t enough, Woz U will eventually introduce an accelerator program" - there is clearly a very heavy money dimension to this!

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Re:Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U by saghm on Friday October 13, 2017 @04:15PM (#15468915)

Right, but GP said "just for money"; they're saying they expect that he would be unlikely to solely take money for the branding and not be involved in some further capacity.

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Re:Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U by DrJaws on Saturday October 14, 2017 @01:12PM (#15473095)

He sold his image to vodafone in spain, so, he could be having economic problems or just making an u-turn and selling himself to whoever is able to pay for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FL4cwcFmgY

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Re:Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U by _kyran on Saturday October 14, 2017 @02:48PM (#15473567)

he also seems to be doing a lot of speaking gigs around the world lately.

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Re:Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U by jondubois on Saturday October 14, 2017 @05:49PM (#15474525)

Maybe Woz gave up on humanity and decided to cash in instead.

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