business Overview
HQplaceSan Francisco Bay Area
BusinessSmartphones and other consumer electronics
Founded
access_time 47 years ago
(founded April 1976)
TrueUp
Trajectory Score
67
/100
Employees
160,000
TrueUp
Rank
#8
Valuation
$2,788 B
TrueUp
Rank
#1
all-time high: $2,877 B (-3%)
1 year ago: $2,341 B (+19%)
5 years ago: $735 B (+279%)
10 years ago: $253 B (+1,004%)
Public / PrivatePublic ($AAPL)
Lists
Hardware
FAANG+

Apple is a Smartphones and other consumer electronics company with 3,846 job openings. It is currently valued at $2,788 billion as a public company. 160,000 people work at Apple. The company was founded in 1976.

Apple grid
Employee happiness →
Growth →
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work_outline Job Openings
3,846open jobs
TrueUp
Rank
#4
local_atm Financials
Valuation
$2,788 B
TrueUp
Rank
#1
52 wk high: $2,821 B (-1%)
1 year ago: $2,341 B (+19%)
5 years ago: $735 B (+279%)
10 years ago: $253 B (+1,004%)
Revenue
trailing 12 months
$394 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#5
Revenue growth
vs. same quarter
last year
8.1%
TrueUp
Rank
#307
MULTIPLES
Valuation / Revenue7.1x
Valuation per employee$17.4 million
TrueUp
Rank
#88
Revenue per employee$2.5 million
phonelink Products
Top products
- iPhone/iOS
Other important products
- AirPods
- App Store
- Apple Pay
- Apple Store
- Apple TV
- Apple Watch
- Beats (acq 2014 for $3B)
- iCloud
- iPad
- Macbook
- Siri (acq 2010)
Primary customer type
emoji_people B2C
Is this really a tech company?
Mostly
remove Network effects
close Zero marginal costs to produce
check Product improves over time
check Zero cost to expand globally
close Self-serve onboarding + Zero cost of sales
emoji_people Culture
Glassdoor employee reviews
82%
would recommend Apple to a friend (35,954 reviews)
better than 64% of tech co's
90%
approve of the CEO Tim Cook (7,469 reviews)
better than 66% of tech co's
Company mission"Bringing the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software and services."
Company culture links
Working at Applenorth_east
apple.com/jobs/ca/about.html
Companies founded by former employees
- Electronic Arts (founded 1982)
- LinkedIn (founded 2002)
- Android (founded 2003)
- New Relic (founded 2008)
- Nest (founded 2010)
public Climate change efforts
Carbon-neutral target: 2030
code Open Source
Open source citizenship
sentiment_dissatisfied OK
TrueUp
Rank
#75
Top open source projects
62.7kapple / swift
12.7kapple / foundationdb
rule Policies
% of open jobs that are remote
0%
home_work Remote work policy
Fully remote work is rare
public H1B sponsorships approved in 2022
845
TrueUp
Rank
#4
History of enforcing non-competes
menu_book Popular books and movies
sentiment_dissatisfiednot available
history Other info
Associated billionaires
(source:Forbes)
$11.8B - Laurene Powell Jobs & family
IPO dateDec 12, 1980
(42 years ago)
Top owners at IPO
15.0% - Steven P. Jobs
14.0% - A.C. Markkula Jr
7.9% - Stephen G. Wozniak
7.6% - Venrock Associates
5.6% - Michael M. Scott
2.4% - Henry E. Singleton
1.3% - Arthur Rock
Founder ownership at IPO22.9%
Implied founder equity split
66% - Steven P. Jobs
34% - Stephen G. Wozniak
Unsuccessful products trending_down
- Apple Newton
- AirPower
- Apple Watch 'Edition' model
- iPhone 4 ('Antennagate')
- Macbook Butterfly Keyboard
- Project Titan
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