The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT

Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by ballenf on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @12:03PM (#17610270)

If anyone else doesn't recognize the author, here's a CV:

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp...

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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by cdbattags on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @12:07PM (#17610320)

Is this a paid-for service? I get redirected to https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks

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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by ballenf on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @12:14PM (#17610376)

No, it just opened up for me. Maybe uBlock helped, but here's the relevant text:

> Mr. Chris MacAskill serves as President of SmugMug, Inc. Mr. MacAskill serves as Chief Executive Officer of Cakes Inc. Mr. MacAskill served as Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble.com Professional, Technical and Business Bookstore since co-founding Fatbrain in June 1995. From September 1983 to September 1990, Mr. MacAskill served as Vice President of Engineering at Western Atlas International. In September 1981, Mr. MacAskill founded PSI, which was acquired by Western Atlas International in October 1983. Mr. MacAskill also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Barnes & Noble.com Professional, Technical and Business Bookstore. He serves as a Director of Cakes Inc. From June 1991 to June 1995, Mr. MacAskill served as Director of Developer Relations at NeXT Computer and General Magic. Mr. MacAskill received his B.S. in Geophysics from the University of Utah and received his M.S. in Geophysics from Stanford University.

Sorry for the formatting, but it's the same on the site.

If there's a better bio somewhere, I didn't see it.

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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by cmacaskill on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @12:44PM (#17610640)

Here's my LinkedIn. I dunno why Bloomberg has me as Chairman of bn.com. Fatbrain.com was bought by them but I was never chairman. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-macaskill-970ab1/

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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by ballenf on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @01:10PM (#17610902)

Awesome, thanks! Those automated profiles are indeed often wrong or outdated.

Thanks for all the great stories from the NeXT era -- either you have an incredible memory or took very good notes during those years. The level of detail in the stories sets them apart from many you read.

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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by cmacaskill on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:50PM (#17612226)

Thanks! I pass them by people who were there at the time as much as I can because sometimes it seems too insane to be real. Did we really think that? Andy Hertzfeld wasn't at NeXT, but he helped me tell the story better.

Dunno if you saw this one from Wayne Goodrich, who was there and continued to Apple:

https://www.cake.co/conversations/jNZlq6j/the-man-who-produc...

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