When was jobs fired

Added Sculley at the conference in Bali, "My sense is that there could have been a different outcome. Indeed, over the years, Sculley, like so many others, recognized Jobs' true genius as a leader. In , for example, he called Jobs "the greatest CEO ever. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read.

Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. Daniel Terdiman. As a result, "Steve came to me and he said, 'I want to drop the price of the Macintosh and I want to move the advertising, shift a large portion of it away from the Apple 2 over to the Mac.

Discuss: John Sculley spills the beans on firing Steve Jobs. Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of future began to diverge and eventually, we fell out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him. Jobs was a very public failure. So he admitted in his speech at Stanford in , which the authors have included in the book.

And a very public out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. In , he quits the company he co-founded. Then, a decade and a half later, he officially rejoins Apple as its new interim CEO. After losing a boardroom battle with John Sculley — a CEO Jobs recruited from Pepsi a couple years earlier — Jobs decided to leave Apple, feeling forced out of the company he started.

NeXT never became the success Jobs hoped it would be.