Steve Jobs Fired From Apple

Steve Jobs has been very erratic, unpredictable man. His personality, though at times useful, resulting in some dislike between him and his employees. John Sculley, who originally worked for Pepsi-Cola, he was hired by Steve Jobs in 1983. Jobs dragged him from the Pepsi-Cola to become Apple's new CEO. However, Jobs and Sculley's employment was distorted near the end of 1984, when industry-wide decline in sales occurred. This event caused many layoffs and discouraging sales performance. As you can imagine, this has resulted in greater stress among Apple employees.

Shortly thereafter, a power struggle developed between Jobs and Sculley. Neither man was satisfied with what the other is working within the Apple company. It was eventually brought to the attention that Steve Jobs is running the meetings late into the night, sending an overly long faxes, and calls the meeting unnecessarily early in the morning. Finally, Apple Board ordered Sculley to "contain" jobs. They wanted to limit Steve Jobs' ability to start an expensive venture into untested product. Jobs believed that Sculley was inappropriate person to lead the company, and tried to form a government coup to overthrow him. However, before Steve Jobs 'plan could take action, Sculley learned of jobs' intentions and urged the Board to resolve the problem at hand. May 24, 1985 The meeting was held, and Apple's board of directors agreed with the objections Sculley and Steve has been removed Jobs with the head of the Macintosh division. Steve Jobs was devastated, and resigned from Apple five months later. later, Steve Jobs said that the shooting of the apple is the best thing that happened to him. in a speech at Stanford University, said , "the weight of being successful was replaced by lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened had I not been fired from Apple. It was horrible taste of medicine, but I think that the patient should ."

In 1985, after he resigned from Apple, Jobs founded NeXT računala.Godinu days later, with employment running out of money and no product of interest on the horizon, he was forced to apply for venture capital. Finally, he got the attention of billionaire Ross Perot. Seeing the potential, Perot has invested in the company. In 1993, NEXT transitioned fully to software development with the release of NeXTSTEP / Intel, and in 1994 announced its first profit of $ 1.03 million. In 1986, Jobs bought the Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar), which was originally intended to be a high-end graphics hardware developer. Soon, the company contracted with Disney to produce computer animated films, which will be distributed and partially financed by Disney. This dynamic partnership has resulted in a number of box office hits such as Toy Story, The Incredibles and A Bug's Life. Finally, Jobs announced that Pixar would seek a new partner after the contract with Disney expired. 24th January 2006, Disney bought Pixar in all transactions of shares worth $ 7.4 billion.

In 1996, Apple announced that the decision to buy NeXT for 429 million dolara.Posao, completed in late 1996, resulted in Steve Jobs returned to Apple, which was originally co-founded.