April 10, 1985: On this day, the fateful meeting of the Board of Directors of Apple took place, at which John Scully threatened to resign if Steve Jobs was not removed from his post as executive vice president and head of the Macintosh division.
This set off a series of events that would eventually lead Jobs to leave the company. A lengthy meeting that lasted several hours resulted in Jobs being removed from the leadership of the Mac division, but he still retained the chairmanship.
Confrontation between Steve Jobs and John Scully
As we wrote earlier, Scully joined Apple after a successful career as president of PepsiCo. He had no experience in promoting high-tech products, but he was considered a marketing genius, and the Apple board of directors hoped that his talents would be invaluable in promoting the personal computer market.
It was planned that Jobs and Scully would jointly run the company in a partnership of sorts, but a number of problems arose with poor sales of the Macintosh 128K, which led to an initial quarterly loss, and the company had to lay off a large number of employees. In addition, Jobs constantly slandered Scully behind his back, undermining the authority of the CEO.
Even after the board meeting, everything could be settled, but Jobs continued to insist on his own and plan a coup to kick Sculley out of Apple.
After several more failed attempts, Steve Jobsultimately had to leave the company himself in September 1985.
Jobs and Scully, who had previously had a very close relationship, never spoke again.
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