Plus, a robotics startup that could go from $18M to $360B
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In 1977, a semi-retired chip executive named Mike Markkula met two kids running a computer company out of a garage.
He liked what he saw enough to write a $250,000 check – cash and a loan guarantee combined – for a one-third stake in the business.






