Chris Espinosa () is a senior employee of

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, officially employee number 8. Having joined the company at the age of fourteen in 1976 when it was still housed in

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's parents' garage, writing software manuals and coding after school, he is the company's current and all-time longest-serving employee.

Career

Espinosa met

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's Byte Shop while Jobs was installing an

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, and later befriended

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. Espinosa had been warned against the two by his teachers at Homestead High School, where they had also been students. In 1976, the 14-year-old Espinosa became employee number eight at Apple, as one of the youngest employees. He began writing

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programs in Jobs's garage. He and other early employees slept underneath their desks. He has worked his entire life at Apple, with the exception of a brief hiatus during which he studied at the

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, where his freshman advisor was graduate student

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, who along with Barney Stone had started a local Apple user group. In 1981, Jobs convinced Espinosa to drop out of Berkeley to work in Apple's publications department. Although Espinosa had not participated in the company's 1980

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, Wozniak had offered up to 2,000 pre-IPO shares at US$5 a share to each of a group of 40 employees that he thought were undervalued (including Espinosa); this became known as the WozPlan. Espinosa has worked in a variety of positions and departments at Apple. He has contributed to the

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and Kaleida Labs (as project manager in the

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, and the iOS Family Sharing system. He is a frequent speaker at Apple's

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and occasionally appears as a panelist at its Stump the Experts session.

In media

Actor Eddie Hassell portrayed Espinosa in the 2013 film '' Jobs''.Cwelich, Lorraine (August 16, 2013)
"Eddie Hassell Talks 'Jobs', Working with Ashton, and Driving Fast Cars"
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''.

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Personal Twitter page

Personal Mastodon profile
*Lemmons, Phil (February 1984)
"An Interview: The MacIntosh Design Team"
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'' Vol 9, No 2
"The Original Macintosh: Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh, and the people who made it (4 stories)"

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*Holland, James (February 24, 2011)
"Apple’s longest serving employee: It's not Steve Jobs"
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