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Jobs and Steve Wozniak met in 1971, when their mutual friend, Bill Fernandez, introduced Wozniak to 16-year-old Jobs.Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple in order to sell it.Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa.At Apple's annual shareholders meeting on January 24, 1984, Jobs introduced the Macintosh to a wildly enthusiastic audience.The Macintosh became the first commercially successful small computer with a graphical user interface.

While Jobs was a persuasive and charismatic director for Apple, some of his employees from that time described him as an erratic and temperamental manager. An industry-wide sales slump towards the end of 1984, caused a deterioration in Jobs's working relationship with Sculley as well as layoffs and disappointing sales performance.The Apple board of directors instructed Sculley to "contain" Jobs and limit his ability to launch expensive forays into untested products. Sculley learned that Jobs—believing Sculley to be "bad for Apple" and the wrong person to lead the company—had been attempting to organize a boardroom coup, and on May 24, 1985 he called a board meeting to resolve the matter. Apple's board of directors sided with Sculley and removed Jobs from his managerial duties as head of the Macintosh division. Jobs resigned from Apple five months later and founded NeXT Inc. the same year.