Apple’s boardroom drama just pushed Steve Jobs out.
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What happened? Steve Jobs is leaving Apple after a bruising power struggle with CEO John Sculley and the board.
What does it mean? The company Jobs helped create is choosing professional management over its restless cofounder — a very familiar fight between vision, control, and scale.
Why it matters: Every tech era gets this story: founder vs. board, product taste vs. business discipline, chaos vs. growth. Today it is Apple. Tomorrow it will be someone else.
Before You Log Off: Somewhere, a beige computer is booting slowly while the future of Silicon Valley gets rewritten in a boardroom.