Guy Kawasaki - Who Should Apple's Next CEO Be? (1994)
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Original text by Guy Kawasaki, Macworld, November 1994. Who should be the next CEO of Apple? Acquire NeXT and let it be Steve Jobs, obviously. This was intended as satire but became a case of “truth is stranger than fiction” when it actually happened two years later!
Gary Davidian on Michael Spindler’s product visionary status.
Steve Jobs: “Tim [Cook] is not a product person per se” at 2m22s.
Both Canon and Ross Perot were major investors in NeXT.