{"id":14561,"date":"2016-05-16T10:28:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T14:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14561"},"modified":"2016-05-16T10:28:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T14:28:32","slug":"larry-and-steves-plans-to-save-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/16\/larry-and-steves-plans-to-save-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry and Steve&rsquo;s Plans to Save Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iclarified.com\/55198\/larry-ellison-recounts-making-plan-with-steve-jobs-to-save-apple-video\">Larry Ellison<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olebegemann\/status\/732168669799829504\">Ole Begemann<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.iclarified.com\/55198\/larry-ellison-recounts-making-plan-with-steve-jobs-to-save-apple-video\"><p>&ldquo;My idea was simple, buy Apple, and immediately make Steve CEO. Apple wasn&rsquo;t worth much back then, about $5 billion dollars. We both had really good credit and I had already arranged to borrow all of the money. All Steve had to do was say yes.<\/p><p>&ldquo;Steve proposed a somewhat more circuitous approach. First, persuade Apple to buy NeXT computer, then Steve would join Apple&rsquo;s board and over time the board would recognize that Steve was the right guy to lead the company.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Ellison (via Ole Begemann): &ldquo;My idea was simple, buy Apple, and immediately make Steve CEO. Apple wasn&rsquo;t worth much back then, about $5 billion dollars. We both had really good credit and I had already arranged to borrow all of the money. All Steve had to do was say yes.&ldquo;Steve proposed a somewhat more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,295,823,173],"class_list":["post-14561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-history","tag-next","tag-stevejobs"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14562,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14561\/revisions\/14562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}