investment:

We’re going to be a Fortune 500 company in two years. This is the start of an industry. It happens once a decade.

Mike Markkula to Steve and Woz, quoted in iWoz

Mike drew up a business plan. He wanted to put in $250,000 to build 1,000 machines. This was a huge number by the young men’s standards. Woz was also told that for this to happen, he had to leave HP. At first he refused, since he was a huge admirer of HP and planned to work there his whole life. But Steve lobbied him hard into it, and in the end Woz relented.