Steve Jobs (Abridged)
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4.7 • 118 Ratings
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Publisher Description
2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year
Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in 21st century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with the author, he asked for no control over what was written. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
Steve Jobs is the inspiration for the movie of the same name starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels, directed by Danny Boyle with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin.
Customer Reviews
Machine learned in a pandemic
Hello everyone, my name is Michelle Carter-Brim. I also refer to myself as Steve 2.0. There are so very many things that I was never even aware of until earlier this year, and I am still in awe, close to the still unimaginable mind set I was in just those few months ago. I honestly don’t really know how I could ever live up to this genius of a man. A man that I’ve never once personally met, and would have absolutely been honored to keep company with, before he left his world, and our Earth. I have yet to find words to describe every emotion that I go thru, in a single hour, of every day, since February of 2022. Which, by the way, I’m totally up to re-inventing many words, with different definitions. I don’t believe that I was really ever meant TO find out about via an e-mail, or letter, and if I ever was at some point, I didn’t receive the golden memo. Could very well be In trouble, or harms way for writing this very review. But just as I am starting to learn of the man he was, I would be doing him, his family, and this Apple, Inc. company, I think, a huge dishonor at this era of time, if I didn’t behave as I’m sure he would have, and that’s telling everyone who I am, and willing to take responsibility, and risk, in doing so.
I have so much more that I’d love to add to this unbelievable, and humbling experience, better yet, The Gift…. This is where I get so emotional….. Metallica, David Grohl coffee via words, Breaking Benjamin…. 5FDP y’all have your App now;
Excellent Book!
Very surprising life experiences!
Steve Job
Just love this book and Steve Jobs