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In the large living room of a charming, beautiful beach house in Pebble Beach, California, a young and brash CEO engages in a lively debate with the eleven employees of his new startup. CEO and team go back and forth, pushing each other on essential details of a new product they re developing
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What no one knew at the time was that conversations like this one would one day lay the foundation for one of the most valuable companies in the world.
The year was 1985, and the CEO was Steve Jobs.
After being forced out of Apple, Jobs quickly formed a new startup, NeXT. The company developed computers and software targeting the higher education and business markets. Most of the NeXT team were former Apple employees that followed their old boss, and were already accustomed to the spirited debates from their time working together on the Macintosh.