Today is Steve Jobs' birthday.

And I've been thinking about something.

Everyone knows Steve. The black turtleneck. The "one more thing." The vision that changed how we carry the world in our pockets.

But not everyone knows Woz.

Steve Wozniak. The engineer behind the curtain. The one who actually built what Steve imagined. Without Woz, there's no Apple. There's no Steve Jobs story. There's just a guy with a dream and no way to build it.

That's the part that gets me.

Here's what I've noticed. The world is full of Steves.

The kid who wants to sell their toys online. The grandparent with 40 years of cooking knowledge and no way to share it. The small town tailor who knows exactly what their neighborhood needs but has no idea how to get it out there. The student who's been sitting on a software idea for three years because they don't know how to code.

Every single one of them has something real. A vision. A product. A business that exists perfectly in their head and nowhere else.

They just never had a Wozniak.

I work at Woz (YC W25). And the way I think about what we're building is exactly this.

For every Steve out there, our platform will be their Woz. The thing that takes what's trapped in your head and actually builds it. Not just for developers. Not just for people with technical backgrounds. For everyone.

Now here's the part I find genuinely fascinating.

The timing of all this is not an accident.

We're watching job displacement happen in real time. AI is not coming. It's here. And as traditional employment becomes less certain, something interesting is going to happen. A wave of new entrepreneurs. Not the VC backed, move fast and break things kind. Something quieter and honestly more interesting.

Think about your neighborhood bakery. The one person accountant. The local alterations shop. Small. Intentional. Built for a specific group of people a large company would never bother serving.

That's what's coming.

The next wave of entrepreneurship is going to look less like Silicon Valley and more like your street corner. Artisanal businesses built for niches that are too small for the big players to care about. And for a window of time, that's actually a competitive advantage. Large companies move slow when the market is too specific and too human.

But here's the honest part. That window won't stay open forever. The incumbents will catch up. They always do. They'll automate the personalization. They'll close the gap.

So the question is not whether to build. The question is whether you build now or wait until it's harder.

The people who move first are the ones who had an idea and finally had the tools to act on it.

That's why Steve Jobs' birthday means something different to me this year.

Not just as a reminder of what great vision looks like. But as a reminder that vision alone was never the whole story.

Every Steve needs a Woz.

And for the first time in history, everyone can have one.