匪夷所思：他们当上CEO之前是干这些的…

    史蒂夫·乔布斯

    职务：苹果公司已故CEO

    职业起点：销售非法电话黑客设备

    上世纪70年代的电话系统和现在有很大差别，当时使用的是单音系统控制远程拨号。乔布斯和他的朋友，即苹果公司另一位创始人史蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克合作，做起了他们的第一单生意：非法销售一种叫“蓝盒子”的设备，它能入侵电话系统并拨打免费电话。乔布斯在1994年的一次视频采访中回忆道：“如果不是‘蓝盒子’，也就不会有苹果，绝对是这样。我和沃兹尼亚克学会了怎样合作，并且获得了解决各种技术问题的自信，并开始自己生产一些东西。”

    Steve Jobs

    Position: Late CEO, Apple

    Unusual Start: Selling illegal telephone hacking equipment

    In the 1970s, telephone systems were far different than today. They used tone signals to control long-distance dialing. Jobs and his friend and Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, had their first business: illegally selling so-called blue boxes that would allow people to break into the telephone system and make free calls. "If it hadn't been for the blue boxes, there would have been no Apple," he said in a 1994 video interview. "I'm 100 percent sure of that. Woz and I learned how to work together, and we gained the confidence that we could solve technical problems and actually put something into production."