Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak will be immortalized in a $350,000 wax figure

Now this is a way to cement a Silicon Valley legend. Madame Tussauds San Francisco said today it will make a wax figure of Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak.

The legendary maker of wax figures and wax museums will reveal the 3D image of Woz on stage at the first-ever Silicon Valley Comic Con in San Jose, California, in a few weeks. It makes me want to step back and think about how rare it is for tech innovators to break in the ranks of well-known celebrities, which is the usual domain of wax figures.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.