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book2009

Return to the Little Kingdom

Disciplines:
technology
biography
apple
business history

Summary

Michael Moritz's 2009 updated account of Apple's history — expanding The Little Kingdom to cover Apple's Jobs-less years, its near-death experience, and Jobs's return and the iPod revolution — with the perspective of Moritz having become a major VC in the interim.

Core Contribution

Updates the Apple founding narrative with the perspective of 25 additional years — including Jobs's exile, the company's near-death, and its resurrection — making it a complete arc of how the founder's absence and return shaped the company.

Historical Influences

Michael Moritz

Intellectual Lineage

Technology BiographyApple History Michael Moritz Updated Research

Allied Works

The Little Kingdom Steve Jobs Becoming Steve Jobs

Contemporaries & Peers

Steve Jobs Becoming Steve Jobs

Minds Influenced

Founders podcast Apple content

Intellectual Posterity

Apple history updated account

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