Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen to raise $1,300 for Apple's first computer. He became a millionaire just two years later at 23.

The article focuses on the early entrepreneurial efforts of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs and the origins of Apple Inc. It details how Jobs and fellow cofounder Steve Wozniak raised $1,300 by selling Jobs’s Volkswagen bus and Wozniak’s calculator to build the first Apple computer, the Apple I, launched in 1976. The success of Apple I led to the Apple II, the first personal computer with a keyboard and color graphics, which significantly expanded the company’s market. The article also highlights Jobs’s early passion for technology, including his internship at Hewlett-Packard and his brief college attendance before fully committing to Apple. By the time of his death in 2011, Jobs had amassed a net worth of $10.2 billion, and Apple had become one of the world’s most valuable companies. [Extracted from the article]