Talk:Gil Amelio

message: Despite the criticisms, Amelio was responsible for putting Apple back into having a respectable cash flow
Bah. Gil's entire contribution to the cause was to issue a huge number of fairly high-interest bonds, thereby placing Apple in debt. It hobbled the company in a time of decreased sales, and surely would have killed it had Jobs not came back. It took a couple of years, but Gil's debt-vehicles were finally killed off in circa-03.
Gil didn't have one single good idea. No, really. I defy anyone to name a single effort that he started that had any hope of turning things around. He happily accepted all the BS that came out of engineering about Copland, and completely ignored the utter chaos that was the engineering departments. It wasn't until he brought in Ellen that anything changed. Jobs might have thought she was a bozo, but she did more for that company than Gil ever did.
Maury 02:53, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Respectable cash flow?

message: Can someone contribute info about where he is now?
There is info about his educational background here:
http://www.nndb.com/people/138/000026060/
According to http://www.answers.com/topic/gil-amelio
"After leaving Apple, Amelio embarked on a second career as a venture capitalist."
His resignation letter when leaving Apple is here:
http://www.resignation.com/8.html
<moved 2 paragraphs to article> Chadlupkes 21:08, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is he now? 

message: What's his middle initial?  The article shows F, but this article shows A. --Saforrest 17:29, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle initial? 

message: What does this phrase mean?  Approval for what?
Some context: "Acquicor completed the acquisition of Jazz Semiconductor in Newport Beach, CA in early 2007 and has since been granted SEC approval."
This can't be approval to acquire, if the acquisition is already complete.  It can't be approval for an IPO; Acquicor already IPOed in 2006.  See Acquicor Technology.
So... huh? -- TJRC (talk) 20:31, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed that sentence since it made no sense out of context. It was an unusual deal involving a special-purpose acquisition company which is now (finally, five years later!) described in the article on Jazz Semiconductor. Acquicor  was a shell corporation with no product nor revenues, just three rich celebrities. W Nowicki (talk) 21:28, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "and has since been granted SEC approval" 

message: The links for citation #1 are incorrect. one is a link to a political video, the other is to a related page on amelio that does not contain the information it is "supposed" to. 67.70.94.222 (talk) 12:07, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Amelio told us: "Apple is a boat. There's a hole in the boat, and it's taking on water. But there's also a treasure on board. And the problem is, everyone on board is rowing in different directions, so the boat is just standing still. My job is to get everyone rowing in the same direction so we can save the treasure." After he turned away, I looked at the person next to me and asked, "But what about the hole?" --A Silicon Valley CEO recalling Amelio's description of his task at Apple during a cocktail party in spring, 1996.
According to SteveJobsInc the source for this is Schlender, B. (1998, November 9) The Three Faces Of Steve. Fortune Magazine. However there is no mention of it in the text. 
cbsnews tells us, this quote is from Larry Ellison, an old pal of Steve Jobs...--hklinke (talk) 12:03, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

text: I'm adding Ellison's quote to the article, since all current sources lead directly to Steve Jobs, who can be considered a biased source in this case.--Gorpik (talk) 10:33, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links? 

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