Event of timeline "Apple "

🧑🏻‍💼 CEO — Mike Markkula

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Start

1 Jan 1981

End

1 Jan 1983

Duration

2 years and 1 day

Description

Mike Markkula was one of Apple's earliest investors, providing $250,000 in funding that was essential to the company's incorporation in 1977. He served as Apple's second CEO from 1981 to 1983, overseeing the company's rapid growth and the development of the Apple III and the Lisa. Markkula helped professionalize Apple's operations and played a crucial role in recruiting John Sculley from PepsiCo to succeed him.