The Forgotten Years That Forged Steve Jobs: New Book Lifts Veil on NeXT Era

Steve Jobs in Exile is a fine profile of Jobs' years at NeXT

In the late 1990s, I was a precocious Mac nerd who pored over issues of Macworld, stayed up late chatting on IRC, and downloaded pirated software that I didn’t actually need. I came of age at the tail end of the dial-up modem and BBS era—and got to witness the early days of the World Wide Web. I wanted to know where all of this had come from and how it had happened so quickly. The grown-ups around me seemed mystified at best and indifferent at w…

The Forgotten Years That Forged Steve Jobs: New Book Lifts Veil on NeXT Era

Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985. He returned 12 years later. Those dozen years at NeXT shaped the man who remade the company he once helped build. A new book examines that period with fresh detail. It shows how failure, persistence and hard lessons turned a brash founder into a focused leader. The Book That Adds Texture to a Familiar Tale Geoffrey Cain’s Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary lands …