Jean-Louis Gassée
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Jean-Louis Gassée is a business executive. He is best known as a former executive at Apple Computer, where he worked from 1981 to 1990. He also founded Be Inc., creators of the BeOS computer operating
Gassée in 2006
NeXT
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NeXT, Inc. was an American technology company headquartered in Redwood City, California. It was founded in 1985 by Steve Jobs, the Apple Computer co-founder who had been ousted from Apple earlier that
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…of Be's total worth at approximately $80 million, Gassée held out for $275 million, and Apple balked. In a surprise move, Apple went on to purchase NeXT, the company their former co-founder Steve Jobs had earlier left Apple to found, for $429 million, with the high price justified by Apple getting Jobs…
Headquarters in Redwood City, pictured in July 2022
Steve Jobs, here pictured in 1984, founded NeXT in 1985.
This NeXT Computer was used by computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to create the world's first web server and the first web browser and editor.
NeXTstation with matching monitor