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Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Instead there is everything to gain.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Instead there is everything to gain.

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Between 2007 – 2016, 1 million Californians relocated outside of the state largely for financial reasons. The housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay area is particularly severe, given the boom in Silicon Valley hires since the 2009 recession. California homeowners are selling up and moving East, to neighboring states.

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