The renegades who left Apple to start NeXT Computer: (back row) Rich Page, Steve, and George Crow; (front row) Dan’l Lewin, Bud Tribble, and Susan Barnes. “I definitely thought about the risk of going to work for him and leaving my job at Apple,” says Lewin. “But I worried that if I didn’t go to NeXT, I would have always said, ‘Dammit, I should have gone along for the ride.’ ” © Ed Kashi/VII/Corbis