Apple Turns 50: the 7 CEOs who Built it and who Comes Next
What do Apple Computer and the Ethics Center have in common?
Both organizations benefitted from early investment support and expertise from Mike Markkula.
Observer reports on the CEO history of one of the world’s most valuable and influential tech companies as it celebrates it's 50th Anniversary this week.
"Markkula became one of Apple’s earliest believers and its first major investor after a visit to Steve Jobs’ garage," writes Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly from Observer. He invested $250,000, served as its inaugural chairman in 1977, and later served as CEO from 1981 to 1983. Markkula was a member of Apple's board until 1997.
Together with his wife Linda, the Markkula's envisioned programs to expand the application of ethics and the teaching of ethical decision making into Santa Clara University's already ethics-guided teaching and curriculum, and provided the initial funding to create the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics as a Center of Distinction at Santa Clara University.
Mike Markkula featured in an article by Observer.