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Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary
Author(s): Geoffrey Cain (Author), Ed Catmull (Afterword), Dan'l Lewin (Foreword)
- Publisher: Portfolio
- Publication Date: May 19, 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 400 pages
- ISBN-10: 0593716698
- ISBN-13: 9780593716694
Book Description
In 1985, Steve Jobs—the brilliant, volatile founder of Apple Computer—walked out of his company's headquarters, driven from the very corporation he had created. What happened next would transform not only his life and career, but the future of technology itself.
For twelve years, from 1985 to 1997, Jobs wandered the business wilderness with his new venture, NeXT. It was a period of spectacular failures, near-bankruptcy, and brutal humiliation. But out of this crucible of defeat emerged the visionary leader who would go on to create the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, transforming Apple into the most valuable company on earth.
Drawing on previously unpublished materials and new interviews with the key players, Geoffrey Cain reveals the untold story of Steve Jobs's "lost decade"—the formative years that shaped the icon we thought we knew. With unprecedented access to unbroadcast footage of Jobs in NeXT meetings, private company documents, and interviews with his closest colleagues, Cain offers the definitive account of how failure transformed a brash wunderkind into a true business genius.
This is the story of how Steve Jobs learned to lead, how he discovered the power of discipline, and how a spectacular failure became the foundation for one of the greatest comebacks in business history. It is nothing less than the missing piece in the legend of Steve Jobs.
Editorial Reviews
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— The Wall Street Journal
"A lively account of Steve Jobs’ interregnum between his ouster from Apple and his reemergence as a creative force."
— Cult of Mac
“A shockingly detailed look at NeXT… it’s sometimes uncannily detailed about behind-the-scenes events at NeXT that helped turn Jobs into the kind of leader capable of saving the troubled company he’d co-founded.”
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— Abram Brown, The Information
“Finally! A full biography of the most consequential years of Steve Jobs’s life. Too often seen as a detour, Cain portrays Steve’s twelve-year exile as formative, the time when he transformed from an impulsive, know-it-all brat to an introspective visionary who could trust and delegate. This will be a source of inspiration for latecomers and lost souls.”
— Patrick McGee, author of Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company
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Steve Jobs in Exile tells the story of America’s greatest visionary from humiliation to reinvention. Essential reading on the transformation of Apple, the evolution of the computer, and the fall and rise of Steve Jobs.”— Chris Miller, author of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology
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Steve Jobs in Exile is the definitive chronicle of NeXT, the transitional company that helped Steve Jobs cross the chasm from failed cofounder of Apple to its brilliant savior.”— Steven Levy, author of Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything and Facebook: The Inside Story
“A remarkable fly-on-the-wall account of the wilderness years that taught a visionary monster empathy and humility. Geoffrey Cain’s inside story of how an outcast Steve Jobs engineered one of the great comebacks in business history is also a surprisingly human tale of self-reinvention.”
“This captivating tale of Steve Jobs’s chastening, exhausting, and often humiliating years in the wilderness explains how, when he returned to Apple in 1997, he came equipped with the wisdom and poise to orchestrate the greatest turnaround in the history of US business.”
“This is the untold story of how getting everything wrong taught Steve Jobs to get it right.”
— John Markoff, author of Whole Earth
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