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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
23 Oct 2016 Acquired NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)
“” Then Steve comes on stage for just a few minutes to say like, “Hey, here’s where I think we’re going,” and it’s just captivating.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 23 Oct 2016
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Like it’s so important for Apple to court our core audience and developers. Right. It’s not taking a position on anything. You know, we’ve all seen managers like that or leaders like that that, you know, don’t really take a side and you walk out and you’re like, “Well, I didn’t disagree with any of that, but I wasn’t inspired. ” Then Steve comes on stage for just a few minutes to say like, “Hey, here’s where I think we’re going,” and it’s just captivating. Like huge applause. So pretty quickly, the acquisition closes in February. Over the July 4th weekend, Steve convinces the board of Apple that Gil has no idea what he’s doing and he needs to go. The next week, the board fires Gil, so the company doesn’t have a CEO. They start a CEO search and really, there’s only one candidate. In September of 1997, Steve Jobs is instated as the interim.…
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