A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.
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I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.Andy Hertzfeld
I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
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Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.
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But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.
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But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
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I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.
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