Gil Amelio Apple 2.0

Gil Amelio was Apple's CEO for exactly 500 days, in 1996-97. He understood Apple's problems and tried to fix them by cutting back expenses and forming business partnerships. One of the issues he addressed was Apple's failure to deliver a modern operating system to evolve the old Mac OS: he eventually bought NeXT (and thus OpenStep) —bringing back Steve Jobs to the company he had co-founded. Steve eventually made Amelio leave after a board coup in February 1997, and became interim CEO of Apple. Steve Jobs publicly made fun of Gil in his famous joint interview with Bill Gates in 2007, attributing to him the saying: "Apple is like a ship with a hole in the bottom, and my job is to get the ship pointed in the right direction".