Peter van Cuylenburg NeXT
NeXT COO Peter van Cuylenburg poses with Steve Jobs and a NeXT Station, 1992
- Name
- Peter van Cuylenburg
- Life
- born 1948 (age 76 or 77)
- Relationship to Steve
- NeXT COO
- Short Bio
Peter van Cuylenburg was the COO brought in by NeXT investor Canon to help Steve Jobs run the company in 1992. According to Alan Deutschman's The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, he plotted against Steve by calling Sun's Scott McNealy (Sun was NeXT's main competitor and the market leader) to ask him to buy NeXT, fire Steve Jobs, and install him as head of the new operation. McNealy told Jobs about the betrayal and Van Cuylenburg had to leave soon afterwards. (This version was disputed by Van Cuylenburg himself on our own blog ).
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