After Steve Jobs, the best known head of Apple was John Sculley and yet he resigned from Apple in profitable disgrace just as the company was headed toward destruction. AppleInsider looks at Sculley’s tenure with the company, and how history has treated the man since.
John Sculley in a detail from thee cover of his biography
Next time you’re asked to become CEO of a major company, make sure you negotiate your exit fee before you sign the contract. For until you sign, until you start the job, the company wants you and could give you practically anything. That’s surely what John Sculley did because when he resigned Apple on October 15, 1993, he left with the equivalent in today’s money of $17.5 million.
Looking back at John Sculley’s rise as Apple’s CEO, and fall on October 15, 1993
Looking back at John Sculley’s rise as Apple’s CEO, and fall on October 15, 1993