Sculley and the Pepsi Question
The documented version of the 'Do you want to sell sugared water?' line — what Sculley says he was told, what Jobs's account differs on, and what the 1985 board vote record shows.
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Paul Rand's Sixty-Thousand-Dollar Logo
The NeXT logo commission — what Rand delivered, the presentation format (a bound booklet, one option, take it or leave it), and what Jobs said about the result in interviews.
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The NeXTcube and the Web
Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web server and browser on a NeXT cube at CERN in 1990 — what the machine was, what NeXTSTEP made possible, and what Jobs said about the software in the years after.
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Pixar, Bought from Lucasfilm
The 1986 acquisition of the Graphics Group from Lucasfilm for five million dollars — what Jobs said he was buying, what Ed Catmull and John Lasseter were working on, and how his role evolved from funder to public voice.
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