September 16, 1985 AND 1997
After a head-to-head boardroom battle with John Sculley, the former PepsiCo executive that Steve Jobs himself recruited to Apple, Jobs resigned from the company on September 16, 1985. Twelve years to the day later, Steve Jobs was back and was named Interim CEO of Apple. Just a few month prior, Apple had acquired NeXT, another Jobs-founded brand. Much of the tech that was acquired with NeXT went into building the Mac OS X operating system, which is, of course, the core of the operating system that runs Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices.
