Apple's forgotten founder still wandering in the desert

Re:Apple's forgotten founder still wandering in the desert by fluxcapacitor on Thursday June 03, 2010 @10:53AM (#1401465)

> And Jobs himself? Forced out of Apple. Builds up Pixar. I mean, Pixar!

Also, before Pixar he founded NeXT, absolutely breakthrough stuff, though not a big commercial success:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT

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Re:Apple's forgotten founder still wandering in the desert by scott_s on Thursday June 03, 2010 @03:09PM (#1402191)

I actually consider NeXT a commercial success since the company was bought by Apple, and NeXT OS was essentially the basis for OSX.

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Re:Apple's forgotten founder still wandering in the desert by hugh3 on Thursday June 03, 2010 @03:13PM (#1402205)

Yeah, NeXT got acquired for $427 million, and that was in 1997 dollars. Jobs personally pocketed $100 million in that transaction, plus 1.5 million Apple shares (and remember the stock has split several times since then).

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Re:Apple's forgotten founder still wandering in the desert by philwelch on Friday June 04, 2010 @01:51AM (#1403617)

He sold all that stock later in 1997 as a gambit, though.

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Re:Apple's forgotten founder still wandering in the desert by flomo on Thursday June 03, 2010 @11:46PM (#1403417)

Very doubtful that anyone ever made any money from NeXT, and that includes Steve Jobs.

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