Also, in the case of Steve Jobs who refused to compromise his unique vision for the Apple products, time has proven him correct.
After his exit, Apple went on an unabated downward slide producing the same beige boxes as other companies. And licensing others to produce them didn’t reverse that trend.
Trying to sell computers as if they’re soda just didn’t work either (one of the interim CEOs used to be in charge of Pepsi).
Finally, they were begging Jobs to come back. The fruit flavored iMacs were just the beginnning of Apples upward climb under Jobs followed by the iTunes store and the iPhone (concepts now routinely copied by multiple companies)
Prior to this we had to buy an entire album. There was no such thing as buying per song. And there were small portable cellphones (flip-phones) but nothing resembling the computer-in-your-pocket smartphones which we are all so used to and mostly take for granted.
So, Jobs got ousted because he refused to compromise the principles upon which he created Apple just for the sake of more profit and history has proven him correct.
But, he should have retained a majority of at least 51% as others have mentioned. But, then we might not have Pixar in addition to Next.
@cookieman
I was busy typing when you posted. I see we are in agreement about Pixar.
I saw an interview with John Lassiter )the head creative guy) and it’s clear that without Job’s money to save the day, there would not be a Pixar because some of the best creative ideas and methods which Lassiter proposed were not particularly regarded favorably by Disney.