The Apple Family Tree

BROU GHT TO YOU BY CEO DOMO THE .com APPLE FAMILY TREE THIS TREE DOESN’T FALL FAR FROM THE APPLE While the leadership of Tim Cook keeps Apple firmly rooted, other employees within the company have preferred to branch out on their own. Here's a look at some fruitful companies founded by ex-Apple employees. STARTUPS FOUNDED BY EX-APPLE EMPLOYEES EA PIXAR Electronic Arts Hotmail FOUNDER: SABEER BHATIA FOUNDER: TRIP HAWKINS FOUN DED: 1982 NEXT & Pixar & JACK SMITH FOUNDER: STEVE JOBS FOUN DED: 1996 Hawkins worked as a marketing director at Apple early on, but left in 1982 to found Electronic Arts. He also FOUNDED: 1985, 1986 Bhatia and Smith both Let's not forget that Steve Jobs was once an ex-Apple employee. While he was gone he co-founded Pixar, which is a huge success. NEXT was a dud, but Apple ended up buying it and Jobs went back to work there, so worked at Apple in the 80s. They created Hotmail, which was later purchased by Microsoft. Both have worked brought a couple of Apple employees with him. on startups since, but none have been as successful. all's well that ends well. salesforce.com Salesforce.com FOUNDER: MARC BENIOFF FOUNDED: 1999 Android Benioff, the founder and CEO of Salesforce.com only spent one summer at Apple, but his time there, although short, had a big impact on him. He wrote later that during his summer there he discovered that an FOUNDER: ANDY RUBIN FOUNDED: 2003 Rubin was an engineer at Apple in the early 90s and left to found Android, an open-source mobile software entrepreneur could encourage revolutionary ideas. company that was later acquired by Google. Linked in Path Linkedin FOUNDER: REID HOFFMAN Path FOUNDED: 2003 Flipboard FOUNDER: DAVE MORIN In the mid-90s, Hoffman worked as an experience architect at Apple. He then went on to found LinkedIn, a professional networking site. FOUNDED: 2010 FOUNDER: EVAN DOLL Having worked at Facebook and being the founder Dave Morin is mostly known for his impact on social networking. But before that, he managed higher education FOUN DED: 2010 Path, Evan Doll worked for six years at Apple as a software engineer, then left in 2009 to make Flipboard, an app that turns news and social media at into a magazine. Apple even liked it so much; it named it the App of the Year for 2010. there nest up Upthere Nest Labs FOUNDER: BERTRAND SERLET FOUNDED: 2012 FOUNDER: TONY FADELL Serlet was key in the development of the Mac operating system. He left Apple in 2011 to start a cloud OS that gives users a new way to store files online. FOUNDED: 2010 Fadell helped revolutionize the music industry by helping design the iPod. He left Apple in 2008 and founded Nest Labs in 2010 where he is making a revolutionary thermostat. BROU GHT TO YOU BY DOMO OTHER HARVESTED FRUIT COMPANY NAME FOUNDER FOUNDED CURRENT STATUS NORTH 280 North Francisco Ryan Tolmasky Ross Boucher 2008 acquired by Motorola, 2010 280 Apture Apture Tristan Harris 2009 acquired by Google, 2011 9Be Be Inc Jean-Louis Gassée 1990 acquired by Palm Inc, 2001 DANGER Danger Andy Rubin 2000 acquired by Microsoft, 2008 Exclusive Resorts Brad Handler 2002 in operation Inkling Matt Maclnnis 2009 in operation inkling Posterous Sachin Agarwal 2008 acquired by Twitter, 2012 Push Pop Press Mike Matas 2009 acquired by Facebook, 2011 Kimon Tsinteris WebTV Networks Steve Perlman 1995 acquired by Microsoft, 1997 webtv Yieldbot, StockTwits Soren Macbeth 2012 in operation à yieldbot Ubiquiti Robert Pera 2005 in operation StockTwits Wily Technology Lew Cirne 1998 acquired by CA, 2006 UBIQUITI wily SOME BAD APPLES COMPANY NAME FOUNDER FOUNDED CURRENT STATUS General Magic Bill Atkinson 1990 ceased operation Andy Hertzfeld Jory Bell and Johnathan Betts-Lacroix OQO 2000 ceased operation ongo... Ongo Inc Alex Kazim 2011 ceased operation All in all, Apple appears to have nurtured the kind of passionate leaders that young startups require. Still, you don't have to be a part of Apple's family tree to know how to go out and grow your own. SOUR CES: BROU GHT TO YOu BY HTTP://www.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM/STARTUPS-FOUNDED-BY-FORMER-APPLE-EMPLOYEES-2012-7?OP=1 HTTP://www.QUORA.COM/STARTUPS/WHAT-S TARTUPS- HAVE-BEEN-FOUNDED-BY-EX-APPLE-EMPLOYEES DOMO CEO HTTP://www.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM/APPLE-EMPLOYEE-STARTUPS-2011-3?OP=1 .com DOMO.COM