NeXT

NeXT

Company type	Private
Industry	Computer hardware Software
Founded	1985; 40 years ago (1985)
Founder	Steve Jobs
Defunct	February 7, 1997 (1997-02-07)
Fate	Merged into Apple
Successor	Apple Inc.
Headquarters	Redwood City, California , U.S.
Key people	Steve Jobs (chairman, CEO) Ross Perot (director) John Patrick Crecine (director) Avie Tevanian (vice-president of engineering)
Products	List NeXT Computer NeXTcube NeXTstation NeXTdimension NeXTSTEP NeXTMail NeXT RISC Workstation NeXT Laser Printer NeXT MegaPixel Display NeXT Music Kit NeXTcube Turbo NeXT port OpenStep WebObjects
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. 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]

1. ↑ "NeXT Inc. to Drop Hardware 300 losing jobs in strategy shift". San Francisco Chronicle. February 9, 1993.
2. ↑ Morgan, Clancy. "Steve Jobs left Apple to start a new computer company. His $12-million failure saved Apple". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
3. ↑ Young, Jeffrey S.; Simon, William L. (2005). iCon: Steve Jobs. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 134. ISBN 0-471-72083-6. Archived from the original on October 23, 2019. Retrieved August 1, 2019.