Steve Jobs deposition, page 31, March 18, 2009


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wanted me co put a bonus program in place, a cash
bonus program in place, annually for the executive
team.

Q. Now, when you say that the board appeared
generally supportive of this concept, in the fall
2000 timeframe, had you at that point discussed any
details about what the grant would look like in
terms of the number of shares or anything like that
or was it a more conceptual
A. I think I was discussing rough numbers.
Q. Okay.
A. Yeah.
Q. Do you remember when it was that the
numbers went from being rough to more finalized in
your mind?
A. Well, again, what I tended to do was to try
to give people how I do explain this? There were
maybe - I looked at the executive team as maybe
havidg three groups. One group, which was the ultra
key people, another was the very important key
people, and the third was the key people. And so I
in each of those groups wanted them to have the same
amount within the group.
Q. Okay,
A. And I wanted the uber important people to

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