Even former CEO John Sculley joined the chorus calling for Apple to produce such a device.
He could have avoided arguing with John Sculley in the mid-1980s and settled into lucrative executive oblivion at Apple.
Jobs persuaded the head of Pepsi-Cola, John Sculley, to join Apple as C.
Pepsi President John Sculley, whom Jobs had picked as a mentor, ousted him in 1985--and the company began to crumble.
Then Apple CEO John Sculley spun it out as a company in 1990: he was already mired in the ill-fated Newton.
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Jobs was especially critical of John Sculley, the PepsiCo executive who he hired to run Apple and who later fired him.
John Sculley, former Apple CEO, has experienced both sides of this story.
After hiring John Sculley as CEO in 1983, Jobs changed his mind about the former Pepsi President and conspired to have him removed.
Apple CEO John Sculley had coined the term in the keynote speech he made at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 7.
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Then, in 1985, Jobs left Apple amid a power struggle with former Pepsi CEO John Sculley, who he had courted himself to come on board.
My opinion is that Steve Jobs is a remarkably better executive today than he was in the 1980s, when he lost his job to John Sculley.
He was fired by his handpicked CEO John Sculley and the board in 1985 and started a rival computing company called NeXT, which struggled to win over customers.
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Just a few months after his 30th birthday in 1985, Jobs was booted out of Apple by John Sculley, the executive he had recruited from Pepsi to run the company.
Pepsi (nyse: PEP - news - people ) President John Sculley, whom Jobs had picked as a mentor, ousted him in 1985--and the company began to crumble.
On a more related side note, a few days ago Bloomberg Television spoke with ex Apple CEO John Sculley in Singapore, who predicted that Apple will increasingly depend on growth in emerging markets, including India.
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