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Since becoming CEO, Cook has also replaced Jobs's micromanagement with a more liberal style and implemented a collaborative culture at Apple. [5]: 314 [6] Since 2011 when he took over Apple, to 2020, Cook doubled the company's revenue and profit, and the company's market value increased from $348 billion to $1.9 trillion. [7]
Michael "Scotty" Scott (born February 11, 1945) [1] is an American entrepreneur, who was the first CEO of Apple Computer from February 1977 to March 1981. Formerly director of manufacturing at National Semiconductor, Scott was persuaded by Mike Markkula to take the CEO position at Apple, as the co-founders — Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak — were both seen as insufficiently experienced for ...
Markkula brought Apple to the attention of Arthur Rock, which, after looking at the crowded Apple booth at the Home Brew Computer Show, started with a $60,000 investment and went on the Apple board. [80] Jobs was not pleased when Markkula recruited Mike Scott from National Semiconductor in February 1977 to serve as the first president and CEO ...
Cook has been with Apple since he moved over from Compaq in 1998. He served as the company's COO before taking on the role of CEO in 2011. The chief executive has guided Apple through the years ...
Apple Computer Company was founded on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne as a partnership. [8] [11] The company's first product is the Apple I, a computer designed and hand-built entirely by Wozniak. [12] To finance its creation, Jobs sold his Volkswagen Bus, and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator.
On a recent episode of Table Manners With Jessie and Lennie Ware, Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled his strict daily schedule. He wakes up “probably a little earlier” than 5 a.m. each day.
In 1996 Gil Amelio became CEO and purchased Steve Jobs' NeXT for $400 million to use that company's operating system in Apple's computers. The next year, however, with Apple’s losses continuing ...
The Apple II platform financially carried the company well into the Macintosh era of the late 1980s; [59] it was made semi-portable with the Apple IIc of 1984, and was extended, with some input from Wozniak, by the 16-bit Apple IIGS of 1986, and was discontinued altogether when the Apple IIe was discontinued on November 15, 1993 (although the ...