He had been working at Hewlett Packard in their financial calculator group when he was approached by a young entrepreneur by the name of Steve Jobs with an offer to join a new company with an absolutely absurd name.
The organization I lead, the Network for Teacher Entrepreneurship (NFTE), was founded bySteve Mariotti on one basic principle: teaching young people living in poverty how to create wealth for themselves is the surest path to poverty alleviation.