How Steve Jobs Lost His Own Company

In 1985, Apple sued the man who had started it. Steve Jobs was still Apple's chairman, with no job left to do. This is how it happened. Steve Jobs never ran Apple until 1997. In the 1980s he was its co-founder, its public face and its chairman. Then he hired a CEO from Pepsi, bet everything on the Macintosh, and watched it stall. What followed was a board vote, a secret coup timed for a business trip to China, an office he nicknamed "Siberia" and a resignation letter. Within a week of that letter, Apple took him to court. This video follows each step, and then the unlikely way back. Chapters 0:00 The Letter 1:03 The Man He Chose 2:45 The Machine That Stalled 4:11 The Board Picks a Side 5:23 The China Trip 6:46 Siberia 9:11 The Way Back Sources Walter Isaacson's account, as summarised by Cult of Mac: the April 1985 board meeting, the May 1985 coup attempt, "Siberia" (cultofmac.com/apple-history) Low End Mac, "Good-bye Woz and Jobs" (1985 timeline, resignation letter, the five who left) Wikipedia: Steve Jobs, John Sculley, Jean-Louis Gassée, NeXT, Pixar, Apple Lisa, Copland Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement address, June 12, 2005 UPI archive (1985 layoffs); apple-history.com #SteveJobs #Apple #TechHistory