Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Question: What famous University of Colorado Boulder alumnus attended the school for a single year in 1968-1969?

Answer: Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak left CU Boulder after his freshman year. The decision led him to move back to California, where he later co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs in 1976.

Though CU lore suggests that Wozniak was expelled for hacking into the school’s computer system, he’s denied this, instead citing an incident in which he unwittingly ran up a huge computer bill for the university, making him “afraid to go back.”