The entrepreneur also accused Musk's Tesla of shoddy design and minced no words in trouncing President Donald Trump.

It’s not good for a business to run that way,” Wozniak said of recent DOGE mass firings. Add Steve Wozniak to the growing number of business leaders who are questioning the approach of Elon Musk and DOGE to reduce government spending.

The tech pioneer warns that skills for business success don't translate to effective governance — a direct challenge to Elon Musk's new government role.

Speaking on the sidelines of MWC 2025, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak also lamented how big tech companies “own our lives”.

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak says a software’s user interface is “the most important thing”—and on that metric, Tesla fails miserably. An early Tesla adopter, Wozniak has since soured on the carmaker and CEO Elon Musk after a number of software changes he says destroyed the driving experience. Wozniak detailed his complaints in a recent interview.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak stabbed fellow tech bro Elon Musk in the back Tuesday by criticizing his plunge into politics and his “sledgehammer” approach to governing. The longtime entrepreneur, who spent decades alongside Steve Jobs,

Steve Wozniak, perhaps the last of an old guard of tech guys who generally seem pretty chill, does not think particularly highly of Elon Musk or Donald Trump. The guy credited with sparking the personal computer revolution told CNBC during an interview that Musk and Trump are bullies who are taking a sledgehammer to the federal government.

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, spoke with CNBC about what tech billionaire Elon Musk is doing with the U.S.'s new Department of Government Efficiency and weighed in on Tesla's product evolution.