From the article quoted above ... "... Apple was already one of the hottest tech firms in the country. Everyone in the Valley wanted a piece of it. So Jobs pr

From the article quoted above ... "... Apple was already one of the hottest tech firms in the country. Everyone in the Valley wanted a piece of it. So Jobs proposed a deal: he would allow Xerox to buy a hundred thousand shares of his company for a million dollars—its highly anticipated I.P.O. was just a year away—if parc would “open its kimono.” ... " I don't think either party had any delusion about the purpose of the "meeting".