Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985 and started a new computer company called NeXT. The operating system became the foundation for Mac OS X.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the intersection of leadership, culture & equity in business. Steve Jobs on money? It may be closer than you think. The ...

Parker Ortolani came across an incredible video of Steve Jobs speaking to Apple employees over the weekend. Akira Nonaka published the footage of Jobs from 1999. The video captures Steve Jobs speaking ...

There's plenty to like, admire, and definitely dislike about Steve Jobs, but he did an incredible job saving Apple, and will forever be treated like a rock star. The greatest thing that Gil Amelio, ...

“I’m asking Steve to step down,” Apple CEO John Sculley told the company’s board of directors, “and you can back me on it . . . or you’re going to have to find yourselves a new CEO.” It was April 11, ...

In June 2025, a claim that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs delivered a deathbed speech about the meaninglessness of wealth and material possessions resurfaced on social media. For example, one Facebook ...

A half‑century after Apple began in a garage, Jobs’s words still offer some of the clearest, most practical guidance for building, leading, and creating something that lasts. Fifty years after ...