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Apple at 50: John Sculley, Apple's most maligned CEO
John Sculley’s ten years as Apple CEO saw huge financial growth and innovative ideas like the Newton — but also a financial crash and the ousting of Steve Jobs.
If you can just stick around long enough, your reputation is likely to change. Today it’s common to see ex-Apple CEO John Sculley praised, or at least described as having been unfairly treated by history.
There are reasons to back that up, most specifically to do with how he didn’t actually fire Steve Jobs as years of rumors would have it. That’s a little bit hair-splitting, though, because the situation between the two men had deteriorated so badly, but it is true.
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