Techcrunch sifted through the March 2008 deposition that Forbes got through the Freedom of Information Act. What did they find? Steve Jobs really went to bat for one time lieutenants like Fred Anderson (who was known to be interviewing at Dell) and Jon Rubinstein who he brought over from NEXT. As we told you before, both eventually left Apple to go to Elevation Partners who invested heavily in Palm to help build the Palm Pre. The Pre will soon be going head to head against the iPhone
