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Company type | Private |
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Founded | 1985 |
Founder | Steve Jobs |
Defunct | February 7, 1997 |
Fate | Merged into Apple |
Successor | Apple Inc. |
Headquarters | , U.S. |
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Number of employees | 540 (1992) |
Website | next.com (archived) |
Footnotes / references [1] |
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]
Steve Jobs used $12 million of his own money to make NeXT and it did pay off because he got his job back.[3]