Talk:Gil Amelio

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Contents 1 Respectable cash flow? 2 NeXT 3 Where is he now? 4 Middle initial? 5 price of NeXT 6 "and has since been granted SEC approval" 7 Links?

[edit] Respectable cash flow?

Despite the criticisms, Amelio was responsible for putting Apple back into having a respectable cash flow

Bah. Gil's entire contribution to the cause was to issue a huge number of fairly high-interest bonds, thereby placing Apple in debt. It hobbled the company in a time of decreased sales, and surely would have killed it had Jobs not came back. It took a couple of years, but Gil's debt-vehicles were finally killed off in circa-03.

Gil didn't have one single good idea. No, really. I defy anyone to name a single effort that he started that had any hope of turning things around. He happily accepted all the BS that came out of engineering about Copland, and completely ignored the utter chaos that was the engineering departments. It wasn't until he brought in Ellen that anything changed. Jobs might have thought she was a bozo, but she did more for that company than Gil ever did.

Maury 02:53, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] NeXT

Amelio later admitted he overpaid for NeXT.

While Amelio may have felt that $400mil was too much, there are many who wouldn't think so at all, looking at Apple's state of affairs now. Getting NeXTStep and Steve Jobs to come and turn around Apple was worth far more than $400mil to the company. I changed this to reflect that Gil's idea that he overpaid was Gil's idea, not fact. Lostchicken 07:52, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

I agree - it was money very well spent indeed. Without it, Apple would not exist today, but of course we can only see that with the benefit of hindsight. Graham 22:57, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Where is he now?

Can someone contribute info about where he is now?

There is info about his educational background here: http://www.nndb.com/people/138/000026060/

According to http://www.answers.com/topic/gil-amelio "After leaving Apple, Amelio embarked on a second career as a venture capitalist."

His resignation letter when leaving Apple is here: http://www.resignation.com/8.html

<moved 2 paragraphs to article> Chadlupkes 21:08, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

if he is conservative enough to become an advisor to Vanguard PAC, he must have stuck out like a sore thumb at Apple. I would speculate that part of his conflict at Apple would have been related to this kind of culture clash.

[edit] Middle initial?

What's his middle initial? The article shows F, but this article shows A. --Saforrest 17:29, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] price of NeXT

", Amelio started discussions with Steve Jobs' NeXT, and bought the company on February 4, 1997 for $429 million." the article on Steve_Jobs says the price was $402 million which is right?

[edit] "and has since been granted SEC approval"

What does this phrase mean? Approval for what?

Some context: "Acquicor completed the acquisition of Jazz Semiconductor in Newport Beach, CA in early 2007 and has since been granted SEC approval."

This can't be approval to acquire, if the acquisition is already complete. It can't be approval for an IPO; Acquicor already IPOed in 2006. See Acquicor Technology.

So... huh? -- TJRC (talk) 20:31, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Links?

The links for citation #1 are incorrect. one is a link to a political video, the other is to a related page on amelio that does not contain the information it is "supposed" to. 67.70.94.222 (talk) 12:07, 31 January 2008 (UTC) drw