sentence: during his tenure as ceo , he employed steve wozniak , co-founder of apple , as the company 's chief scientist , assisted in securing partnerships with ibm , dell , samsung and hewlett-packard , helped raise over $ 100 million in capital and saw the company named the '' # 1 most promising i.t. company in america '' by the wall street journal and the '' most innovative up-and-comer in the world '' by businessweek readers .