Transcript: Apple CEO Steve Jobs addresses the Cupertino City Council

When we started Apple in my parents’ garage 30 years ago this month — April Fools day — after about a year we moved to Cupertino. We’ve been here for almost 30 years, been here ever since. What’s happened at Apple is that our business has basically tripled in the last five or six years. We’ve gone from 6 billion in sales to 20 billion in sales, basically.

What that’s meant is that our head count in Cupertino has dramatically expanded.

Now we have this great campus down near 280 — but we are in 30 other buildings now. We’ve rented every scrap of building we can find in Cupertino to put our people, and they just keep getting further and further away from the campus, which is — the whole situation’s pretty inefficient and frustrating. It’s inconvenient and frustrating for people.