“In its 36 years, Apple has watched a lot of its employees walk out the door and into great success of their own,” Yoni Heisler reports for Network World.
While some with Apple ties are already well-known, others may be surprising to find on the list:
• Andy Rubin (the man behind Android)
• Marc Benioff
• Loren Brichter
• Reid Hoffman
• Trip Hawkins
• Queen Raina of Jordan
• Donna Dubinsky
• Dave Morin
• Eric Schmidt (Apple’s BoD)
• Mike Matas
• William (Bill) Campbell
• Jon Rubinstein
• Gary Starkweather
• Bruce Leak
• Alan Kay
• Tony Faddell
• Isaac Nassi
• Andy Hertzfeld
Read more in the full article here.
– Ron Johnson
– Avie Tevanian
– Bertrand Serlet
– Mark Papermaster
– Bob Mansfield
– Bill Atkinson
– John Sculley
– Mike Spindler
– Jean-Louis Gassee
– Tony Fadell
– Gil Amelio
– Steve Wozniak
– Mike Markkula
– Ronald Wayne
Don’t forget Steve Jobs (walked out, did great stuff at NeXT, and Pixar before coming back to Apple).
Bill Atkinson, the one that mattered.
John scully was the worst ceo of apple by far
I would disagree – Spindler and Amelio were worse. The only good thing Amelio ever did was to rehire Jobs.
… not including many of those listed by BLN, who helped Steve Jobs Build Apple. And THESE are just the Alumni, not counting those who are still around.
As for Scully, he forgot to “Think … DIFFERENT” – and darn near killed Apple. But … THAT ended.
I can’t believe they forgot about Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini !
And Dan Kottke, employee #12, who kept the A2 running during the West Coast Computer Faire
How about Sue Espinosa (Chris’ mom who ran the pubs dept for a while)?
I still have “Tog on Interface” on my desk at work.
What’s with this guy “Trip” Hawkins’ name? Was it left over from the Romney family’s basket of dumb first names?
Okay, so “Chop” isn’t exactly a romantic name either. But it’s all I got.
Jeff Raskin
Guy Kawasaki
Larry Tesler
Burrell Smith
Bruce Horn