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Apple's lasting impact stems from a 1977 philosophy. Mike Markkula's memo highlighted Empathy, Focus, and Impute. These principles shaped Apple's product design and customer relations. Steve Jobs ...
Aalto University President Ilkka Niemelä, Mike Markkula, former CEO of Apple, Santa Clara University President Julie Sullivan, and Kristi Bowers ’90 MBA '97, Co-Founder and CEO of Grape.ag, SCU ...
Steve Jobs may be the most well known CEO of Apple, but there were many that came before. In this video I cover 5 Apple CEOs that preceded Steve Jobs: Michael Scott, Mike Markkula, John Sculley ...
Founded in 1986 with a seed grant and initial endowment from Linda and A.C. “Mike” Markkula Jr., the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics brings the traditions of ethical thinking to bear on ...
Mike Markkula, one of Apple's lesser-known first employees who spent 20 years at the company, was also obsessed with making a solid first impression of a product.
1977, Apple Computer was incorporated in Cupertino, California, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike Markkula Jr. Jan. 4: ...
Mike Markkula was an Intel employee and had amassed a fortune worth millions of dollars before he turned his attention to Apple, emerging as its first investor after pouring an initial sum of ...
It wasn't just at Atari. Former Apple CEO Mike Markkula informed Isaacson that he and the team insisted Jobs take showers before allowing him to participate in meetings.
With the late Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple Inc.'s co-founders, dominating the tech world for decades, it’s easy to overlook the vital role played by a lesser-known figure: Mike Markkula ...
Apple co-founder Mike Markkula has sold his 14,000-acre ranch — the largest landholding in Carmel Valley, California — for $35 million to an environmental group that plans to turn the property ...