[1] As NeXT's Chief Financial Officer, Ms. Barnes helped raise significant funding that helped NeXT weather its slow start.
The most notable transaction was a $100 million investment by Canon Inc. in 1989 for a 16.7 percent stake in NeXT.
That gave NeXT an implied valuation of $600 million, astonishingly high for a company that was not yet shipping any products.
[2] After leaving NeXT Computer, Susan Barnes was Chief Financial Officer of Intuitive Surgical from 1997 to 2005.
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