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NeXT

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NeXT
Company typePrivate
Industry
Founded1985; 39 years ago (1985)
FounderSteve Jobs
DefunctFebruary 7, 1997 (1997-02-07)
FateMerged into Apple
SuccessorApple Inc.
Headquarters,
U.S.
Key people
Products
Number of employees
540 (1992)
Websitenext.com (archived)
Footnotes / references
[1]

NeXT Inc. was an American computer and software company. It was created after Steve Jobs quit his job at Apple Inc.. It was a failure but it did get him back at Apple and as CEO. The Mac OS x's core was based entirely on the NeXT computer. Apple bought NeXT for $429 million. [2]

Steve Jobs used $12 million of his own money to make NeXT and it did pay off because he got his job back.[3]

References

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  1. "NeXT Inc. to Drop Hardware 300 losing jobs in strategy shift". San Francisco Chronicle. February 9, 1993.
  2. Morgan, Clancy. "Steve Jobs left Apple to start a new computer company. His $12-million failure saved Apple". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
  3. Young, Jeffrey S.; Simon, William L. (2005). iCon: Steve Jobs. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 134. ISBN 0-471-72083-6. Archived from the original on October 23, 2019. Retrieved August 1, 2019.