American computer company founded by Apple founder Steve Jobs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NeXT Inc. was an American computer and software company. It was created after Steve Jobs quit his job at Apple Inc.. It was a failure but it did get him back at Apple and as CEO. The Mac OS x's core was based entirely on the NeXT computer. Apple bought NeXT for $429 million. [2]
Company type | Private |
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Industry | |
Founded | 1985 |
Founder | Steve Jobs |
Defunct | February 7, 1997 |
Fate | Merged into Apple |
Successor | Apple Inc. |
Headquarters | , U.S. |
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Products | |
Number of employees | 540 (1992) |
Website | next.com (archived) |
Footnotes / references [1] |
Steve Jobs used $12 million of his own money to make NeXT and it did pay off because he got his job back.[3]
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