NeXT
Company type	Private
Industry	Computer hardware; Software;
Founded	1985; 41 years ago
Founder	Steve Jobs
Defunct	February 7, 1997
Fate	Merged into Apple
Successor	Apple Inc.
Headquarters	Redwood City, California, U.S.
Key people	Steve Jobs (chairman, CEO); Ross Perot (director); John Patrick Crecine (director); Avie Tevanian (vice-president of engineering);
Products	List NeXT Computer; NeXTcube; NeXTstation; NeXTdimension; NeXTSTEP; NeXTMail; NeXT RISC Workstation; NeXT Laser Printer; NeXT MegaPixel Display; NeXT Music Kit; NeXTcube Turbo; NeXT port; OpenStep; WebObjects;
Number of employees	540 (1992)
Website	next.com (archived)
	Footnotes / references;

NeXT Inc. was an American computer and software company. It was created after Steve Jobs quit his job at Apple Inc.. It was a failure but it did get him back at Apple and as CEO. Mac OS X's core was based entirely on the NeXT computer. Apple bought NeXT for $429 million.

Steve Jobs used $12 million of his own money to make NeXT and it did pay off because he got his job back.

References

↑ "NeXT Inc. to Drop Hardware 300 losing jobs in strategy shift". San Francisco Chronicle. February 9, 1993.
↑ Morgan, Clancy. "Steve Jobs left Apple to start a new computer company. His $12-million failure saved Apple". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
↑ Young, Jeffrey S.; Simon, William L. (2005). iCon: Steve Jobs. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 134. ISBN 0-471-72083-6. Archived from the original on October 23, 2019. Retrieved August 1, 2019.

[employees-1] "NeXT Inc. to Drop Hardware 300 losing jobs in strategy shift". San Francisco Chronicle. February 9, 1993.

[2] Morgan, Clancy. "Steve Jobs left Apple to start a new computer company. His $12-million failure saved Apple". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-06-14.

[3] Young, Jeffrey S.; Simon, William L. (2005). iCon: Steve Jobs. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 134. ISBN 0-471-72083-6. Archived from the original on October 23, 2019. Retrieved August 1, 2019.