Back in December 1996, Apple was not in a good place. The company had weathered over a decade of declining sales and sub-par leadership, and was on the brink of financial collapse. But that abruptly changed when the company's board decided to bring back co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs as an interim CEO to right the ship. As the story goes, Jobs was able to refocus Apple's efforts and, with a little help from Bill Gates at Microsoft, turn the company around into a profitable business. In the years that followed, Apple would become the largest electronics company in the world, and one of the most profitable companies ever. Thanks to Tim Holmes, former Mac OS evangelist at Apple, we can get a brief peek at that first night back for...
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