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Jean-Louis Gassée (born March 1944 in Paris, France) is a business executive. He is best known as a former executive at Apple Computer, where he worked from 1981 to 1990. He also founded Be Inc., creators of the BeOS computer operating system. After leaving Be he became Chairman of PalmSource, Inc. in November 2004 and served as president and CEO of Computer Access Technology Corporation (CATC), a company which made network protocol analyzers, but left within a year (CATC was purchased in fall 2004 by LeCroy Corporation, a competitor). Gassée resurfaced as a general partner at Allegis Capital, a venture capital fund based in Palo Alto, California, from which he retired in 2022. In 2009 he started contributing regularly to the Monday Note blog, a newsletter covering the intersection of media and technology. Gassée’s sharp and incisive analyses of his beloved tech industry have attracted many followers, including well-known technologists. He is also well-known for his famous one-liners, aka Gasséeisms. Gassée holds a Master of Science from the University of Paris and a Bachelor’s Degree in mathematics and physics from Orsay University. He is married to Brigitte and has 3 children, Marie, Sophie, and Paul. Source: Wikipedia / The Computer History Museum
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