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• Valley of design
• Secret sauce
• Apple’s megabyte
The parked spaceship of California
Large cubical: The Apple Park has about 3 million square feet of office space which can accommodate approximately 12,000 workers.
Amazing: It’s built with curved glass windows, solar panels, and natural ventilation. With a foundation above hundreds of movable steel saucers to withstand earthquakes.
Building budget: Reportedly it took $5 billion to build the Apple Park in Cupertino, California of US.
Apple’s sauce on leadership
What cooked up: Recruited by Steve Jobs in 1998, Tim Cook became CEO in 2011 after Steve’s absence.
Some stuff: With Tim, Apple invested heavily in renewable energy and started its central processing unit development in-house.
At one point: Cook assisted in reducing the company’s $400 million worth of unsold hardware to $78 million in unsold inventory in around half a year.
The Apple guy from the past
Flipping the table: When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, Apple started using the “Think Different” slogan that year. When Steve came back to Apple as CEO, he turned the balance sheet of deficit to $309 million in profit in his first year back.
Menu list: While Steve was leading Apple, the company went on to launch iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and retail stores.
How simple: Steve believed “simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.”