John Sculley first told in detail about how Jobs was fired from Apple

After several years of silence, the former Apple CEO John Sculley (John Sculley) conversation the affairs "of bygone days." Recently, he gave perhaps its most complete public interview about the circumstances of the departure of Steve Jobs of Apple's, recounting the infamous decision in the history of business.

The situation was so unusual as it is a monologue: Bali, Indonesia, the 400 most influential people in the world, including more than 50 Asian billionaires gathered at the 13th annual Forbes Global Conference CEO. Someone from the audience asked Scully to dismiss. The hall fell silent, listening intently to the story of Scully. By the way, a storm of emotions in the former head of Apple caused a view recently released in theaters the movie «Jobs» with Ashton Kutcher. Apparently, Scully attacked by nostalgia and a desire to explain some things incorrectly shown in the film.

"I always wondered how people did not bother to ask the question: how could two such personalities as Steve Jobs and I, who allegedly We were inseparable - we were together all the time, we were close friends - how could we break up because of one of the collision? "

Answer? "I blame the board of directors", - said Scully, who retired from Pepsi in 1983 to restore order in the Apple. "It seemed to me prior to my arrival, that the council understands Apple's, Steve understands... And I really believe that it was possible to come up with decision to Steve and I could continue to work together, because we were not really good friends to this moment. "

Scully opened a lot of details about the circumstances leading to the dismissal of Steve Jobs. The problems began after the release of the second generation of Mac, Macintosh Office system in 1985, when the product is "made fun" of the mismatch is too high ambitions and a relatively small capacity.

"Steve sank into depression... He came to me and said:" I want to reduce the cost of Macintosh, and most of the direct advertising to the Apple 2, not on Mac ». I replied that it would not change anything, because the reason why the Mac is sold poorly, has nothing to do with the value or quantity of advertising, and that if he did, it risks condemning Company collapse. And he radically disagreed with me. Then I said I was going to discuss it with the council. " Though Jobs did not believe him, Scully did. Jobs and Sculley presented their positions separately. As a result, the opinion Scully was found faithful. According to him, Jobs at that time did not know how to lead the company, what say the failure to Lisa and Apple 3. 2 Apple was on the verge of failure, and the company needed the money to develop the Macintosh.

Total? Scully replaced Jobs as head of Mac development department, and then as head of the company... And Scully He believes that things could be different, even though, at that time, Jobs was not so wonderful director. According to him, a brilliant leader, known to the whole world, he was just after a few years of neglect.

What Scully regret the most? That did not go to Steve and asked not to return.

The audience appreciated the sincerity of 74-year-old speaker, expressing it with applause.