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Steve Jobs Worked Up Until A Day Before He Passed Away
The late Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs worked on company operations up until the day before he passed away. When Apple CEO Tim Cook was meeting with Masayoshi Son, the CEO of SoftBank Capital, he received a call from Jobs. “That was the day of the announcement of the iPhone 4S. He said that Steve is calling me because he wants to talk about their next product. And the next day, he died,” said Son.
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Categories Apple Inc., Masayoshi Son, SoftBank Capital, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook
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Eric Schmidt, Sean Parker, Richard Rosenblatt, Peter Chernin, and Marc Andreessen Invest In Ari Emanuel’s Merchant Bank Raine
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, former Facebook president Sean Parker, Demand Media founder Richard Rosenblatt, former News Corp. COO Peter Chernin, Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen, WPP, and Mubadala Development have invested in Raine. Raine is a merchant bank that was founded by Ari Emanuel and two former Wall Street dealmakers. Fans of the TV show Entourage will probably know Emanuel best for having the character Ari Gold based on him.
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