If you read books like the one mentioned above, even if biased, you will see that he did not do pretty well with NeXT, it was actually a mess.

Outside the impressive hardware and NeXTSTEP, NeXT was bleeding most of the time, had it not been for a few generous VCs that had Steve Jobs in high regard, NeXT would not have survived until the moment of Apple's acquisition proposal.

We really should thank Marcia Lucas for agreeing to split up with George.