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This board was hand-picked by Steve, for what it's worth.

• mattmaroon 18y ago
  Also, at the time this began, Apple was far from resurrected. It was a freighter headed in the wrong direction. Steve had thrown it in reverse, and it was definitely slowly decelerating, but it hadn't yet stopped and started moving where he wanted it to go. If it had, the options wouldn't have needed backdating. Jobs took the role back over in 1997. The iPod launched in 2001 and became the hit that saved the company over the next few years. The backdating began in 1997 and stopped in 2002, right about when the ship started moving in reverse.