This week's additions focus on customer, founder stories, and leadership, with new digests from Acquired and Cameron Herold. Highlights include Jobs built NextStep while exiled — Apple's entire OS lineage stems from it. CEOs have communities built for them — COOs have none

Origin stories

Podcast

How Apple's acquisition of NeXT saved the company and created a trillion-dollar empire

Acquired October 23, 2016

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Origin stories 10

Business models 5

• Jobs built NextStep while exiled — Apple's entire OS lineage stems from it.
• NeXT's hardware flopped at $10,000; the software changed computing forever.
• A $429M acquisition of a failing company created roughly $1 trillion in revenue.

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Management

YouTube

Why COOs need a peer group separate from their CEO

Cameron Herold October 18, 2016

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Management 8

Community building 6

• CEOs have communities built for them — COOs have none
• Peer groups give COOs tools to distinguish healthy from unhealthy growth
• Confidential COO-only settings reveal your problems are widely shared

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