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you sign it or not.

Do you really want to give

up the rights to see your...

To see her child

in the future?

I don't have time.

Not now.

Steven, as a father, I

implore you to sign this.

Regardless of whether you think

Lisa is your daughter or not.

There's no risk in signing.

Only the regret

if you don't.

Frederick Rodney Holt,

he recently made

an additional

preferred purchase

of 106,656 shares

at 19 cents a share.

Right, and to be clear,

this new purchase,

it does not affect

Mr. Holfs entitlement to

founder stock.

No, not at all. Steve?

No, no, no.

Rod gets his due.

Daniel Kottke,

engineering technician, founding employee.

Now, at our last meeting I,

I don't believe that

we meta consensus

as to Mr. Kottke's entitlement

to founder stock.

Well, in all honesty,

to be rewarding Daniel

with the same amount

of stock as Rod seems

a bit unfair.

Doesn't it?

Yes. Daniel gets nothing.

Nothing?

Don't you think

you should

think about what you're

doing, for a second?

I have thought about it.

Daniel gets nothing.

Yes, sir.

It's noted.

What?

Any low grade technician

could do his job.

I've been feeding him for years.

It's not personal.

Don't give me that bullshit, Steve.

Of course it's personal.

He can barely do hisjob.

If we give Daniel

preferred stock,

some engineer with 10 times

his talent gets nothing.

Then what happens?

Then we just draw this line

right here, right now, okay?

So you, what are you talking about?

Management, or...

Management and engineers.

Yeah, this means...

I know what it means, Mike.

Thanks.

No, he's...

You know what, I don't...

Okay then.

Shall we continue?

We can assume

that Bill Fernandez,

Randy Wiggington

and Chris Espinosa will not

be receiving

an)' options?

Drinking a beer, huh?

Tomorrow's

a big day for you.

For us.

For us.

Mike told me about what

happened with Bill and Dan

and Chris. And, Steve...

Why'd you do it?

The company outgrew them.

They're not management.

They're not project leads.

It's not my job to

be nice to people.

It's my job to

make them better.

They don't deserve it.

Then who the hell does?

Do you know how

this company works?

Do you want to know?

I'd be happy to teach you,

if you want to know.

Do you know why I started

this company with you?

Why I left the safety

of HP for this?

I doubt you do.

You never asked.

I left because

this was my thing.

And you guys thought

it was cool.

I just wanted to be

one of the guys.

And of all the guys I knew,

you were the coolest.

You were smart,

quick-witted.

And this was my chance

to do what I loved.

And to do it for fun.

That's all, that's

all I ever wanted.

I thought that's what

you wanted, too.

Somethings happened

to you, Steve.

I'm grown up, Woz.

No. No, you're not.

And now, turning to

big news in business,

Apple Incorporated is making

headlines once again.

On Wall Street

the tech titan Apple

went public this morning,

to incredible market interest,

as four point six million

shares of its IPO

were sold within an hour

of the opening bell.

Wall Street executives

had forecast the big clay

for the growing

technology company,

but experts now

say Apple's day

exceeded the market's

wildest expectations.

It was the most over...

Hey, hey. Here he is!

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, terrific.

Yeah, you did it.

Let's help

them move that stock.

Hey, pal.

Oh, hey, thank you.

Business as usual, guys.

There's work to

be done, people.

Thank you.

I had some fun ideas.

KOTTKEI This is it for me, Bill.

I'll see you when I see you.

I'm gonna get out of here.

I'll call you later.

All right.

Hi. Could you please tell

Mr. Markkula we're here. Thank you.

Yes, sir, Mr. Rock.

Gentlemen.

Mike. Please.

Have a seat.

There's something we

need to talk about,

and I don't think

you're gonna like it.

It's Steve.

He's hemorrhaging

the company's dollar

on fantasies that simply are not

possible with the Lisa computer.

Yeah, but Steve's been

doing the impossible

ever since this company

was in a garage.

Mike, I love everything

Steve represents. You know that.

But he's like a kid in a candy

store, and we've given him the keys.

Yeah.

But, it's his candy store.

You're never gonna see

a personal computer

where the keyboard is attached

to the machine again.

Mike, it's a problem.

The bigger problem is that

he is ridiculing IBM.

Jobs took out a full page ad

in The Wall Street Journal

taunting the biggest computer

company on the planet.

"Congratulations on your

first personal computer."

He's trying to start

a war with IB f***ing M!

I'm fully aware of the ad.

Then do something

about it!

Listen, Arthur,

you know he's right.

Three years ago IBM had no

interest in the personal computer

and now look at 'em!

They followed us.

Think about it.

We have, Mike.

And I'm sorry, but the

Board is unanimous.

Steve will no longer be involved

in Lisa's development. Period.

What is this, Arthur?

Some sort of power play?

For 18 months now you've

offered nothing but support.

And now you want to try and

take Jobs off of his own team?

I don't want

any of this, Mike.

But you have to

try to look at it

from the shareholder's

perspective.

Steve is great.

He's great.

Yeah, he's great.

But he's a time bomb.

And it's ourjob

to diffuse him.

So take care of it.

I don't give a sh*t

what the Board thinks.

It's the time you're taking. Your perfectionism.

It's, it's, it...

They're looking at

losses in the millions

before this thing

even gets off the ground.

They're not seeing

the big picture.

That's right. The shareholders

don't see past their own shadows.

They're only concerned

about the here and the now.

And the Board has

got blinders on.

If they could see you

they'd take them off,

they'd see you

the way I see you.

The way your

employees see you.

Lisa is my project.

It's mine.

And they're taking

it away from me?

You're letting them

take it away from me.

Bullshit, Steve.

You know that's not true.

Sh*t.

There are more

Apple H's reaching more subjects

in more schools than

any other computer...

Everything from alphabet

lessons for preschool,

to science programs

for graduate school.

So whatever Brian wants to be,

an Apple personal computer

can help him be it.

The Apple II. There's no telling

how far it can take you.

Now that doesn't

make any sense.

Well, you haven't seen as

much of murder as I have, Mr. Cross.

I'd rather have a judge give me the

works than have to do n' myself.

Right here in solitary.

So what?

So you go right on punishing yourself.

You can't get away with it.

Hi, I'm Gabe Kaplan.

Take the Pepsi Challenge. Let your

taste decide.

Right, guys? Okay, now

why don't you tell me

which one you chose.

Pepsi Cola.

Yeah?

Hey, Steve. It's Mike.

Hey.

Hey. Um, I think I ma y have

found a project for you.

It's more of an R&D

outcast than anything,

but it's actually a project

you approved some time back.

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