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The Forgotten Apple CEO
Sabah Arif writes "Michael Spindler was supposed to be the savior of Apple. After four years at Apple, he was an executive vice president and had built Apple Europe to the point where it was providing 25% of Apple's revenues. Just the same, at the end of the day Spindler couldn't handle the stress or control the Apple organization. Low End Mac has an extensive biography of this figure in Apple's History." From the article: "Apple Europe ran out of a cramped 100 ft. office in Brussels and had only a few employees. Spindler had never worked at the startup before, but he liked it a lot. He had freedom to try almost anything he wanted. There were problems with working for such a young company, though. Spindler went without payment for almost six months because Apple didn't know how to move funds from California to Belgium."
Apple didn't know how to move funds from California to Belgium.
Their paypal account was closed?
How do you work out of a 100 ft office? That's one-dimensional, which gets uncomfortable quite quickly.
Silly you, Europe is a breakaway province of Germany. They tried to reel it in twice last century, but had a bad time of it!
My patience is infinite, my time is not.
He has other assets he could sell or he could have gotten a low interest loan to cover the taxes till his Disney stock was released.
Why don't you send him your resume, and apply to be his financial advisor?
-jcr
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