“How did you do that? You had no money to speak of at Pepsi.”
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John Sculley
John Sculley III is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and investor in high-tech startups. Sculley was vice-president (1970–1977) and president of PepsiCo (1977–1983), until he became chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc. in April 1983, a position he held until October 1993. In 1987, Sculley was named Silicon Valley's top-paid executive, with an annual salary of US$10.2 million.
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business · American businessman (born 1939) · businessperson · also John Sculley, John Sculley III, Sculley
Born 6 April 1939 · Q337024
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2026· 2 entries
Yahoo Finance: Today in Apple history: John Sculley steps down as Apple CEO
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2024· 1 entry
Benzinga.com: Former Apple CEO John Sculley Compares Apple Vision Pro To iPhone: 'What Tim Cook And His Team Have Done Is More Than Extraordinary'
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2023· 1 entry
Cult of Mac: John Sculley - page 2
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2019· 1 entry
CNBC: Apple can see incredible profits from its move into health tech: Former CEO John Sculley
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2016· 2 entries
Business Wire: John Sculley, Former CEO of Apple and Pepsi, Bets on RxAdvance as the Game Changer in the PBM Marketplace, Disrupting Decades Old Business Models
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While visiting Japan, Sculley saw Steve Jobs's autograph in a sushi restaurant, and broke down in tears
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2015· 1 entry
That Jobs never forgave him and their friendship was never repaired
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2014· 2 entries
Sculley was a panelist at a forum organized by Zeta, which featured ad executives, marketers and NFL executive to discuss the changes in the way companies market and reach consumers since Sculley's time at Apple in 1984
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Sculley co-founded Obi Mobiles, a smartphone brand aimed at the emerging markets
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2013· 1 entry
Sculley married Diane Gibbs Poli, vice president and design coordinator for Wittman Building Corporation, and they live in Palm Beach, Florida
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2010· 2 entries
Newsweek: Ceos: John Sculley’s Management Minute
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Was interviewed for Cult of Mac on the topics of Steve Jobs and design
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2007· 1 entry
Sculley co-founded the data company Zeta Global with business partner David A
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2004· 1 entry
Sculley joined the board of directors at OpenPeak, a maker of software for wireless consumer electronics, digital media, computers, and home systems
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2003· 1 entry
Sculley was interviewed by the BBC for the television documentary The World's Most Powerful episode "Steve Jobs vs
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2002· 1 entry
Sculley endorsed and invested in the Wine Clip, a wine accessory product, which claimed to accelerate the aeration of wine by exposure to magnets
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2001· 1 entry
Sculley and Lynch transitioned the company into a learning program for rising entrepreneurs
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1999· 1 entry
Live Picture filed for bankruptcy protection as part of a plan to be acquired by MGI Software
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1998· 1 entry
Joined the board of directors of BuyComp LLC (now Buy
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1997· 3 entries
Sculley co-founded PopTech with Bob Metcalfe and several other dignitaries from the technology industry
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Amidst poor financial performance Apple would acquire Steve Jobs's NeXT Software; Jobs would oust Amelio and reinstate himself as chief executive
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Sculley became the chairman of Live Picture, a California-based company, to oversee its push into high-quality, low-bandwidth imaging over the Internet
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1993· 3 entries
And was replaced by German-born Michael Spindler, who had been Chief Operating Officer
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Amid a personal computer price war and internal tension over the company's direction, Apple's board forced Sculley out
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Sculley became chairman and chief executive officer at Spectrum Information Technologies, a New York-based company that held key computer patents for wireless data transmission
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1992· 2 entries
Sculley gave a seminal speech regarding the future of the Internet, titled "The Dawn of a $3
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Was running in the California Republican primary to be the party candidate for a United States Senate seat
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1991· 1 entry
Apple introduced System 7, a major upgrade to the operating system, which added color to the interface and introduced new networking capabilities
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1987· 2 entries
Sculley made several predictions in a Playboy interview: He predicted that the Soviet Union would land a man on Mars within the next 20 years and he claimed that optical storage media such as the CD-ROM would revolutioni
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Sculley was named Silicon Valley's top-paid executive, with an annual salary of US$10
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1982· 1 entry
Until 1985, they had what they both acknowledged as an "amazing" partnership
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1978· 1 entry
Married Carol Lee Adams, ex-wife of a former PepsiCo vice president, ultimately divorcing in 2011
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1977· 1 entry
Sculley was named Pepsi's youngest-ever president
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1975· 1 entry
To compete against Coca-Cola to gain market share, using heavily advertised taste tests
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1974· 1 entry
Sculley became president of PepsiCo's International Food Operations division, shortly after he visited a failing potato-chip factory in Paris
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1970· 2 entries
Pepsi set out to dethrone Coca-Cola as the market leader of the industry, in what eventually became known as the Cola Wars
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At the age of 30, Sculley became the company's youngest marketing vice-president
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1967· 1 entry
As a trainee, where he participated in a six-month training program at a bottling plant in Pittsburgh
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1939· 1 entry
Born 1939-04-06.
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