From: Ben Watdman
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 1998 3:07 AM
To: Eric Rudder
Subject: F-W: Summary of meeting with Steve Jobs
Opps, forgot to include you
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From: Ben Waldman
Sent: Thursday. April 23, 1998 2:35 AM
To: Bill Gates; Paul Maritz; Bob Muglia (Exchange}; Jon DeVaan; Gre9
Maffei; Rich Tong;
Cc: Jodi Granston; Richard Craddock; Don Bradford: Rick Powell; Jim Murphy
Subject: Summary of meeting with Steve Jobs
SHORT VERSION:
Yesterday, I and several others met with Steve Jobs and others at Apple
for about 3 1/2 hours, primarily discussing two issues:
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Later, however, in a smaller group, I asked Steve point blank if he’d
ever believed in Rhapsody, and be said "no," adding something about his
duty being to NeXT shareholders. (After that, we briefly discussed
Amelio, and his book, and Steve said that Amelio "had fucked up
everything he did, except hire Fred Andersoo as CFO." He said that if
you looked at all of this year’s California graduating high school
classes, anyone in the top 10% could have run Apple better than Amelio.
I told him that I was amazed at 1) Amelio blaming his subordinates for
problems and 2) his "appreciation" that BIIIG was "nice enough" to stay
for a technical discussion held by subordinates after he and Gil had
talked about general details).
http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02887.pdf
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court documents in the case of Comes v. Microsoft.
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