September 9, Apple introduced not only updates the iPhone, but a completely new product - "smart" watch Apple Watch. They became the first product that developed in the company under the leadership of Tim Cook. The well-known venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said he likes a smart watch, but he feared that the current head of Apple may bring it to bankruptcy.
"The companies that I run, there is a rule: during the meetings, we show respect for each other and do not take a laptop, phone or tablet, and, therefore, no email. Perhaps, Apple Watch made me reconsider this rule. On the small screen displays notifications and e-mail can be checked on the sly, without disturbing anyone" - said the investor.
Andreessen compared Tim Cook with John Scully, who led Apple from 1983 to 1993 and almost brought the company to bankruptcy:
"In the last two years has been an open question that Cook can show the market.Presentation of Apple Watch and Apple Pay payment system has shown that Tim can make a freight train innovation to move forward. He probably drowned all the questions only for a while. Need to wait until 2015, when the watch will be on sale.Maybe Cook will be John Sculley 2.0" - quotes investor Siliconrus .
Apple founder Steve Jobs invited the head of Pepsi Scully to work in 1983, one of the most famous phrases in the business: "Do you want to spend his life selling sugar water or do you want to try to change the world?" Scully and Jobs ran the company together as executive Directors. But soon their relationship soured. It is with the filing Scully Apple founder was fired from the corporation. In 1993, when the company was on the verge of bankruptcy, at the insistence of the same Apple's board has already left John Sculley.
Andreessen appreciates the merits of Steve Jobs. "Steve - the standard of the partners with whom we like to work" - said the investor.