So true. Steve Jobs saw the potential of Akamai back in 1999, when it was a small company and when most people hadn’t heard of them. Back then, Apple invested US$12.5 million in Akamai, for 5 percent of the shares of the company. (Akamai’s valuation has gone up to 36x since then)

In those first years, Jobs also promoted Akamai on stage at keynotes and Apple wrote glowing press releases about how well the Akamai network held up streaming Apple’s keynote addresses. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2000/07/24Apple-and-Akamai-D...

Apple + Akamai + Star Wars is what really made it all come together, according to this former Apple engineer: https://www.quora.com/Movie-Trailers/How-did-Apple-com-becom...