People may have heard of "Rock Family Trees" - you look at the members of bands and trace backwards (and forwards) to see all the other bands involved.
Those family trees are fun. In a different life when I worked in one particular small, tight-knit industry I took a large whiteboard and traced each employee outward. That was a lot of fun.
I suspect in the case of Apple, however, that there would be a lot of circular loops many times over. =)
Here's an example for Crosby Stills & Nash (http://familyofrock.com/browse/details/csny.html) and one for Eric Clapton (http://familyofrock.com/browse/details/clapton.html)
It could be interesting to do a "Start up family trees" to see the flow of people throughout the industry.
> In either case, Don, thanks for these stories. Any insight at all into how the sausage gets made is a great read.
Strongly agree.