Entrepreneurs: Rocky Raccoon Makes Good

Monday, May. 19, 1986

Never mind that he designed one of the first personal computers. Never mind that as a co-founder of Apple Computer, he amassed a fortune of $70 million. Stephen Wozniak, 35, has long been unhappy that he never graduated from college. He will finally fill that gap in his resume this week, when he receives a B.S. degree from Berkeley.

Wozniak first attended the college in 1971, but he left to earn money to finish his studies. After Apple hit it big in the late 1970s, he quietly went back to classes in 1981-82 and this year. Relatively few students noticed him because he enrolled under a pseudonym: Rocky Raccoon Clark.

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