Daniel Kottke - on Technology, Health, AI, the future of Silicon Valley, and his spiritual pilgrimage with Apple’s Steve Jobs.
Meet Daniel Kottke - a college friend of Steve Jobs, one of the earliest employees of Apple, a personal friend of Steve Wozniak,
and currently an adviser to many Silicon Valley startups including health technology companies. In 1976, Daniel helped to assemble and test the very first Apple I computer boards at Steve Jobs’s parent's garage as a part-time employee. He witnessed the birth of the tech giant from its humble beginning to its ‘Galactic’ dominance. The personal journey of this technological trailblazer intertwines with the very fabric of technological history. Daniel, a former patent lawyer, is portrayed in documentaries like “Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine”, and a few feature films such as “Pirates of Silicon Valley” and “Jobs”. He is also mentioned in the biography of Steve Jobs, written by Walt Isaacson. He lives in Palo Alto, CA.