Chapter 84: Jobs
Avenger Steve Jobs has had a bad time since he was kicked out of the Macintosh computer project team by Apple's board of directors in the summer of 1985 and betrayed by John Scully in 1985 and finally left Apple. Although he left Apple with nine of Apple's veterans, he founded NeXT and eventually developed the NeXT computer, which was labeled by Steve Jobs. Although in his opinion, the NeXT computer has far more performance than the Macintosh computer, compared to the blue giant IBM computer, but the whole market just does not buy the NeXT computer. In 1985, he bought Pixar from George Lucas. But the lack of funds ultimately failed to allow him to keep Ed Cattermor and John Russell. The bait thrown by Alve-Ray Smith dug the two people directly from Pixar to Cofilm, and he had no choice but to sell Pixar, which had become an empty shell, to Cofilm. Finally, the NeXTSTEP operating system developed by NeXT was favored by IBM, and Microsoft's Bill Gates jumped out again, took the window system of the GUI operating system, and directly snatched this opportunity from NeXT. The Windows system bundled with IBM's personal computer sales strategy allowed Microsoft to flourish in the nineties. And now, when Apple is in the doldrums, when Apple needs an operating system, the damn Bill Gates is jumping out again. Of course, in addition to Bill Gates, there is also Sun and Be's Garcy, the guy who once stabbed himself in the back.
Thankfully, he had another option.
JR Investment.
For Jerry Rothscher, Steve Jobs has mixed feelings. Hate him? Speaking of which, for a long time, Steve Jobs was very interested in this Grammy's wonder boy. It's really hateful. Because this guy actually supported Alway Ray Smith, who was kicked out of Pixar by him. For a while, he was grateful to Dade for his purchase of Pixar's hardware department other than the animation department, but later, he realized that he had planned it. It's just that in those dark years, Pixar was a bottomless pit that burned money, and if he didn't sell the upbeat Pixar hardware division, neither Pixar nor NeXT would have a chance to survive. But Rothskel, who bought Pixar's hardware division, actually allowed Smith to blatantly abduct Ed Cattermor and John Russell. See the success of the Lion King series and see the success of the Toy Story system. What else can Steve Jobs do besides grit his teeth? Do you still want to reach out to Smith and congratulate him on his success?
Alve-Smith is simply like himself, an avenger.
The difference is that he has completed the perfect revenge on himself, and he is still struggling with NeXT.
Not to mention the annexation of Apple, the chances of NeXT surviving are very small.
Investors Ross Perrault and Fidelity Funds have lost faith in NeXT.
Right now. He had to rely on Jerry Rothschan again because Steve Jobs was well aware of this guy's relationship with JR Investments.
Wholly owned acquisition of NeXT Corporation, or acquisition of NeXTSTEP.
This is a plan from JR Investment.
And this is most likely Rothschel's idea.
For more than a decade since Black Monday, JR Investments has been sucking in Apple shares. In 1995, when Apple's stock price bottomed out, it was inhaled in large quantities from the stock market, although it suffered from Apple's poison mechanism during this time. However, with 37.55% of the shares controlled by JR Investment, it has become the largest shareholder of Apple. If you add in the 14.33% stake held by Paul Allen, who has a very good relationship with JR Investment, JR Investment has actually completed a full control of Apple.
NeXT is dead or alive. It can be said that it is all up to JR Investment.
Although JR is invested in Apple's board of directors, it has always played the role of soy sauce.
At this time, Steve Jobs is not the great dictator of many years ago, and in the past ten years, some of the strength and viciousness in his personality have been perfectly concealed by him, even if he still has the same exuberant energy and enthusiasm. He desperately wants to get back to Apple, the Apple company he and Steve Wozniak have given him and Steve Wozniak the idea to change the world.
Steve Jobs, who holds an Apple stake in his hand, knows exactly how bad things are for Apple right now.
He just wanted revenge, he didn't want it to go out of business.
John Scully also resigned from Apple after leaving the company himself.
Michael Spindler has been replaced by Gil Amerio.
Even if he can convince Jill Amelio, he will have to pass the JR investment hurdle.
Jobs was curious to know what kind of idea JR Investments, no, Jerry Rothscher, was like.
Steve Jobs would never have agreed to an acquisition of NeXT if he had just bought NeXT, or if he had just been kicked out of the game entirely.
Steve Jobs glanced at Jerry Rothschild sitting in front of him, who also looked at him with a smile on his face, and Robert Soros, the god of stocks, took tea and blew gently, but took Steve Jobs and Jerry into his eyes with his afterglow.
The formal meeting of two geniuses is very interesting.
Robert Soros is not very interested in NeXT or NeXTSTEP, and his main focus is now on the Middle East.
After Israel's air strikes in Lebanon and the exchange of fire with Syria, the world's oil prices have risen sharply due to tensions in the Middle East, and major oil companies have begun to increase their oil inventories. Because of the loan agreement between JR Investments and PEMEX, the fluctuation of world oil prices is undoubtedly one of the key concerns of JR Investment. It's just that the current situation is not clear, and everything is waiting to be watched.
Robert Soros shows up at Jerry's house because it's the weekend, and he's finally relieved from Ms. Leslie, and he's impatient to fly to California to pay his food and enjoy the sexual bliss of being a Cindy Crawford man.
The flight with Jerry arrived in Los Angeles because he really hadn't fooled around with Jerry in a long time.
It's not the first time Steve has met Jerry, and even so, he still feels that this Grammy's genius boy is really young.
Unlike any sixteen-year-old in Steve's memory, this guy was young and unapologetic.
And like anyone who has come into contact with Jerry, Steve is curious about how this guy's brain grows.
With three trophies at the Grammys, Golden Globes and Oscars, he should be called a monster based on his achievements in the music industry alone. (The Oscars and Golden Globes refer to the Best Music/Song award for The Lion King's film music "Circle-Of-Life" and "Can-You-Feel-The-Love-Tonight")
Jerry withdrew his gaze, then raised the teapot and poured Steve Jobs a glass.
Steve Jobs smiled, although he hadn't spoken, but from this guy's eyes, he could see that Rothschel had the same restless soul as him.
Connon-X, That-Place-In-Your-heart, Something-We-Lost, Heal-The-World, DreamWorks, Queen's Mile, Royal Victoria Square Declaration, Seine Tunnel, Choas 1996, and even yesterday's Sixth Avenue clash – everything he did was changing the world.
Whether such a change is good or bad, Steve has no comment.
But from the look in his eyes, Steve knew that the amount of equipment this guy possessed would definitely not be small enough to kick himself out.
Even if he "makes things difficult" for himself, in the final analysis, he has no grudge against himself at all.
He wasn't like Garcy or Scully, he had stabbed himself, and even in NeXT's darkest days, he paid for Pixar's hardware division.
Although after that, his approach was somewhat unorthodox.
"I'm willing to design any kind of collaboration you want, licensing software or selling the company to you, whichever way." Steve finally broke the deadlock, although he was very eager for JR Investment to convince Apple's board of directors to let Apple buy NeXT as a wholly owned company, but in front of Rothschel, he was reluctant to show too much eagerness, and he had such confidence in the NeXTSTEP system. And he knows Macintosh Computers very well, after all, he was once the adoptive father of Macintosh Computers, "If you knew better, you would decide that you wanted more than just my software, you would want to buy the whole company and take in all the employees." ”
"What about the requirements?"
"Get me back to Apple's board."
"Why?" Robert suddenly became interested.
"Because I was Steve Jobs, I founded Apple." (To be continued......)