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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
23 Oct 2016 Acquired NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)
“Jean-Louise wanted $300 million for the company, Apple I think was willing to shell out $120 to $125 million, somewhere in there.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- evaluation
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- 23 Oct 2016
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- Acquired
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…Yeah. And Be, which created BeOS was kind of the other candidate that they were vetting other than NeXT. And ultimately, the reason that Apple didn’t end up making that acquisition of Be, you know, number one, I continue to go back to the fact that they all sort of knew they needed Steve back, but they just couldn’t come to the same agreement on price. Jean-Louise wanted $300 million for the company, Apple I think was willing to shell out $120 to $125 million, somewhere in there. Something like that, yeah.…
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