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Ross Kelly

Remebering Be Incorporated - the early 90s startup whose fate was decided by Steve Jobs

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs with a Macintosh computer.

In 1990, former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassée co-founded a new venture with the aim of shaking up Silicon Valley.

Be Incorporated, or as it came to be known, ‘Be’, left a lasting impact on the global technology sector, despite eventually slipping into relative obscurity. The goal? To create a new operating system using C++ complete with complementary hardware.

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