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The Burner Files

Reinvention. Failure. Comeback. Stories from business and tech. By Geoffrey Cain, author of Steve Jobs in Exile.

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Breaking Through the Legend of Steve Jobs

He spent twelve years in exile from Apple. But the man I uncovered during those difficult years was far more than the tyrant depicted in movies.

The revolution Steve Jobs missed

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web on Steve Jobs' exotic computer. Steve ignored it.

Three days in: what people are saying about Steve Jobs in Exile

NeXT and Apple alumni, the Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Six Colors, 9to5Mac, and others weigh in

The Other Steve Jobs, in the Wilderness

Notes on writing Steve Jobs in Exile

Behind the Boardroom Coup That Forced Steve Jobs Into Exile

A note on the reporting, plus a link to the Vanity Fair excerpt

John Ternus Is Apple's Next CEO. The Lessons Are in Steve Jobs's Wilderness Years.

Before Jobs built the iPhone, he spent twelve years at a company called NeXT. The clearest lessons of his career are in those years.

The $2.5 billion chip smuggling operation that Silicon Valley doesn't want to talk about

My second cover story for The Spectator, on how the West is arming China's war machine

Khamenei Is Dead. Now Look at Beijing.

My cover story in The Spectator on the collapse of Xi's coalition and the summit with Trump

Announcing My New Book: Steve Jobs in Exile

Jobs Hit Rock Bottom. Then Came the Greatest Comeback in Business History.

TikTok, you are technically correct, the worst kind of correct

TikTok dodges the hard questions about its China connections