Looking back at John Sculley's rise as Apple's CEO, and fall on October 15, 1993

After Steve Jobs, and Tim Cook, the best known head of Apple was John Sculley. AppleInsider looks at Sculley's tenure with the company, and how history has treated the man since.


Next time you're asked to become CEO of a major company, make sure you negotiate your exit fee before you sign the contract. For until you sign, until you start the job, the company wants you and might give you practically anything. That's surely what John Sculley did very well because when he resigned Apple on October 15, 1993, he left with the equivalent in 2025's money of $17.5 million.

That included severance pay, a one-year consulting fee and also Apple's commitment to buy Sculley's mansion — and his private Lear jet.


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title: Detect Exploitation - Looking back at John Sculley's rise as Apple's CEO, and fall on October 15, 1993
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description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
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author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-24
logsource:
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  product: any
detection:
  selection:
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        - 'exploit'
  condition: selection
falsepositives:
  - Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
  - attack.initial_access

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        date = "2026-09-24"
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    strings:
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