Do you realize how absurd and contradictory you are being right now? NeXT was an actual company and didn't get any funding while complete hacks like the one in

Do you realize how absurd and contradictory you are being right now? NeXT was an actual company and didn't get any funding while complete hacks like the one in the article got millions and didn't even have a product. A NeXT was used by TimBL to create the Web! Carmack used one to code DOOM, do you even understand how prestigious this is? And don't talk about NeXT as if Jobs was just an employee, it was HIS company, he started it practically alone with money off his own pocket. 100 millions=insane? AAPL was a 4 billion company, and NeXT was full of former AAPL employees, how is 100 million insane? Right now you have startups with no strategy getting more funding and higher valuations than NeXT because the founder is from Facebook or Google. Again, when Jobs was fired he had already lost all momentum, where have you seen a public company whose shares go up after firing a founder? That's how bad Jobs' image in the Valley was.