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The majority of time I was at Apple, I was basically focused on delivering the same kind of performance metrics that I delivered at Pepsi. So, for example
by ramanujan 15y ago
The majority of time I was at Apple, I was basically
focused on delivering the same kind of performance metrics
that I delivered at Pepsi. So, for example, when I joined
Apple we had just achieved $570 million of revenue in 1982
and we were No. 3 in market share. When I left Apple in
1993, we had reached $8.3 billion in revenue, Macintosh
was the No. 1 selling PC hardware product in the world,
Apple was the most profitable PC hardware company in the
world and we had $2 billion of cash.
That is an interesting point in defense of his tenure there. To his credit, he admits the rot began under him (and then things really went to hell under Spindler and Amelio).
Growing revenue 14X is not too shabby, though! In an alternate reality, maybe Sculley would have been Jobs' Ballmer, the corporate type focused on growing the current product, with Jobs tasked with making sure the company didn't miss the next technology wave.