“People may conclude that ‘Steve Jobs in Exile’ is a business book, but it’s more than that. What Mr. Cain has created is a study in individual magnetism and group dynamics: how humans master their emotions and tame their demons and learn to work together—or don’t.”
— The Wall Street Journal
“A lively account of Steve Jobs’ interregnum between his ouster from Apple and his reemergence as a creative force.”
— Kirkus
“Steve Jobs in Exile is the best way to learn everything there is to know about this forgotten corner in Jobs’ life. It’s an entertaining read, as much about the eclectic clash of characters involved as it is the computers they made.”
— 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.”
— Leander Kahney, editor and publisher of CultofMac.com and author of Inside Steve’s Brain
“The 12 years between Steve Jobs’ ousting from Apple and his return to the company… generally gets scant attention in the constant examination and reexamination of his existence. Geoffrey Cain… thinks Jobs’ wilderness years merit greater study… And [he] goes to the task with great fervor in Steve Jobs in Exile.”
— Abram Brown, The Information
“Why did Jobs start NeXT? What happened to a “computer for the rest of us”? What took place between Apple’s glory days of the early 1980s and its iMac-fueled, late-90s renaissance?) … Steve Jobs in Exile answers all of these questions and more.”
— Ars Technica
“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
“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
“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.”
— Peter Robison, bestselling author of Flying Blind
“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.”
— Michael Moritz, former chairman of Sequoia Capital, and author of The Little Kingdom and Ausländer
“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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