Inside a company of nerdy engineers, they embodied art school cool. They dressed casually in T-shirts, hoodies, and designer jeans. They drove expensive cars, among the priciest being Ive’s Aston Martin DB9, which had cost about $250,000. They obsessed over their hobbies: De Iuliis perpetually searched for the world’s best coffee; Julian Hönig, an avid surfer, shaped his own boards; and Eugene Whang created a record label, Public Release, and DJ’d under his nickname, Eug, at clubs. They
