who followed Jobs to NeXT, returned to Apple, Jobs wistfully told
her: “It must feel like you’re going home.” 51
Jobs secretly longed to go back to the company he had started
in his garage. He was even more eager to unload NeXT, but he
was too shrewd to let Amelio know how he felt. Driving a hard
deal, Jobs got Apple to pay him $377.5 million dollars for NeXT
plus 1.5 million shares of Apple stock, a very high price for a los-
ing company. As part of the deal, Jobs agreed to return to Apple
as an informal advisor. It was December 1996. Much to his joy,
Steve Jobs was going home.
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