But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out.
When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him.
So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out.
What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me.
I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly.
I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley.
But something slowly began to dawn on me ?
I still loved what I did.
The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit.