Steve Jobs emails Adobe's CEO

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From: Steve Jobs
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 9:36 AM
To: Bruce Chizen
Subject: Recruiting

Bruce,

Adobe is recruiting from Apple. They have hired one person already and are calling lots more. I have a standing policy with our recruiters that we don't recruit from Adobe. It seems you have a different policy. One of us must change our policy. Please let me know who.

Steve


On May 26, 2005, at 4:15 PM, Bruce Chizen wrote:

I thought we agreed not to recruit any senior level employees (at Adobe this is Sr. Director/VP and represents about 2% of the population). I am pretty sure your recruiters have approached ,more junior ones.

I would propose we keep it this way. Open to discuss. It would be good to agree.


From: Steve Jobs
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:27 PM
To: Bruce Chizen
Cc: Steve Jobs
Subject: Re: Recruiting

OK, I'll tell our recruiters that they are free to approach any Adobe employee who is not a Sr. Director or VP. Am I understanding your position correctly?

Steve


Subject: RE: Recruiting
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 20:53:36 -0700
From: Bruce Chizen
To: Steve Jobs

I'd rather agree NOT to actively solicit any employee from either company. If employee proactively approaches then it's acceptable.

If you are in agreement I will let my folks know.


[This document is from In re: High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation (2011).]

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Previously: Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (March 7, 2007)

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Twitter board member emails general counsel

From: Martha Lane Fox
Sent: 10/27/2022 2:30:24 PM
To: Sean Edgett
Subject: Re: Board Meeting Materials (Privileged & Confidential)

O
My
Freaking
God


[This document is from X Corp. v. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (2023).]

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