Steve Jobs deposition, page 89, March 18, 2009


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what an underwater option is, but just to make sure 11:30:49
everyone is operating from the same playing field,
could you describe for me what you understand it to
be?

A. An option whose exercise price is higher 11:30:57
than the market price.` Is that right?
Q. That sounds about right.
A. Yes.
Q. I just wanted to make sure I'm going with
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what your understanding is.
All right. And so in this context of the
work you were doing for Apple, and you mentioned not
seeing your family a lot and
A. I thought I was doing a pretty good job.
Q, Right. And so I assume you communicated 11:31:23
that to members of App1e's board?
A. Yeah.
Q. And I guess did that - I mean, how did you
go about communicating that at first?
A. I don't really remember. My guess is that 11:31:35
I probably talked to{ about it.
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Q. And did you when you first discussed
this withI mean, was it -- in other
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words, was the discussion in the context of an
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