Steve Jobs in exile was far removed from the polished myth that later came to define him. In a new book, author Geoffrey Cain argues that the Apple co founder spent 12 difficult years, from 1985 to 1997, outside the company he helped build, labelled a 'tyrant' by some colleagues and, at one stage, pushed close to personal financial ruin.
Many accounts of Jobs's life move quickly from his early Apple success to his dramatic return and the era of the iMac, iPod and iPhone. The years in between are often treated as a blurred interlude, with NeXT cast as a failure and Pixar reduced to a fortunate bet. Cain's Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT, and the Remaking of a Technology Visionary argues that those lost years were central to the making of both Jobs and the modern tech industry.
