Ben Gilbert: evaluation

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…Yeah, this is going to be a blast. And a big, big thank you to GeekWire, Todd and everybody for hosting us here. This is our first live show. So, we’re streaming on Facebook. You guys will get to see how the sausage is made. Thanks for sticking with us, and we will post it on iTunes and our website Acquired.fm once we edit it. With that, we’ll dive in. So NeXT, like Ben was saying, I’ve been looking forward to doing this one for a long time as both devoted Apple users, both of us. This is really the story of how, you know, what I love about it is kind of like this is the hero story of Steve Jobs, you know. He had initial success, the initial arc, and then he was off in the wilderness at NeXT for 10 years, then he comes back to Apple and here we are today where Apple is the most valuable company in the world. How did this happen? And truly like a drama, right? I mean, you can’t script this stuff. They’ve literally made three movies about it because of how kind of crazy this journey is. So, we want to focus just today on kind of the part picking up at when Steve started NeXT and how that went integrating that into Apple. So, we start our journey in 1984, a very good year, it was the year I was born. And Steve Jobs is still at Apple for the first time, a company he co-founded with Steve Wozniak. What’s going on at this time is the personal computer has happened, driven by Apple and the Macintosh, Apple as a public company, very valuable. But computing has entered a new wave, and we’re in the era of the “workstation” at this point. I did do a bunch of Googling and Wikipedia-ing because I really had no clue what a “workstation” was. I think there were a bunch of these in college in the computer lab somewhere and they’re made by some and I didn’t really know what they did.…

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