The Adams Brothers: A New Oral History of Two Black Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs

[wmlive]

Just stumbled over this great article from 2021 in Mastodon:

Meet the Adams Brothers: A New Oral History of Two Black Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs

»When Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985, the Adams brothers decided their best bet to make it big would be to get in on the ground floor of whatever Jobs was doing. That turned out to be founding computer and software company NeXT. True to their word, the brothers were among the first to create custom software for Jobs' new company, and Adamation received a major profile in the premier issue of NeXTWORLD magazine in 1991. Being an early adopter of NeXT and cultivating an important market relationship with Steve Jobs allowed the Adamses access to the Silicon Valley 5% elite and to parlay it into a profitable business, providing the foundation for the rest of their careers.«

Link: computerhistory.org/blog/meet-the-adams-brothers

[Rhetorica]

Great find! But obviously we can't just go around mentioning articles in NeXTWORLD without posting them, so...

[Protocol 7]

They were also early supporters of BeOS. Releasing not just their own software for it but also the BeSpecific compilation CDs.

[Adam_Hall]

Were these the guys (or at least one of them) who made up Circus Ponies? Was so disappointed when they gave up on MacOS note application they had developed.