
What Jobs Did NeXT
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After being stripped of all operational responsibilities on May 31, 1985, Steve
Jobs had little to do at Apple, so he began canvassing the country’s colleges
asking them to describe their ideal university computer. In early September,
Jobs had lunch with Paul Berg, Nobel laureate and Stanford University
biochemist. When Berg complained of the difculty of performing “wet-
lab” research on gene splicing, Jobs suggested simulating the experiments
on a computer. Berg was supposedly so enthusiastic about the idea that
Jobs felt he was onto something big. Within weeks, Jobs decided to launch
a startup with ve other Apple ...