Geoffrey Cain

David, yeah, that's actually the accurate thing to say about Steve Jobs in his younger years.

I mean, one of the things I found writing this book is that we have this memory of Steve Jobs as being this brilliant genius who showed up at Apple and he co-founded it in the garage with Steve Wozniak.

He went on, he created the Macintosh.

We tend to remember him as the great man who came and who saved everybody and brought great technology to the world.

But

When you actually go back and dig into the history, talk to the people, look at the old archives, the memos that people were sending back and forth, that's not true at all.

I mean, Steve Jobs was always smart.

He was always a visionary.

But he was extremely difficult to manage at Apple in the 1980s.

I mean, he would go in there.

You have to remember, he was the head of the Macintosh division.

So he was only tasked with building the Macintosh.

He was not the CEO of Apple, something that's often kind of overlooked.

And he would go in there and he would throw tantrums and yell at people.

He would overstep his authority.

At one point, you know, he told an executive, I am the board.

He would, you know, I mean, they were working on all kinds of projects at Apple.

There were other computers, too.

And, you know, he would go in there and he would just tell people to do things differently.

So Steve was impossible to work with in those early years.