FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and … 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, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first 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 this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. 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.
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Well written and really informative not only on the life of Steve Jobs but on the history of the personal computer and its impact on all of us.
Well written, engaging on the life and work of Steve Jobs. Insightful.
Hard to put down book about one of our geniuses. Even though the writer got a couple of things wrong (dates, addresses), the biography is past excellent, giving you a view of Jobs that matters in our time.
Great insight into the man behind Apple.
Even tho I knew a certain amount about Steve Jobs, this book was a page turner for me. So well written and insightful.
It was too long. I liked Steve more before I read this book.
Interesting and worth reading
As good of a biography as you will read!
Brilliant and worth the time it takes to read. the author is among my favorites.
Steve Jobs, A hero, a Saint… maybe not but driven to succeed at the cost of friends and family. The end is to late to realize that time has gotten past you
Fascinating! It is difficult to get into this man’s mind. Was he a genius? Was he autistic? This a great book.
one of a kind and unique character as well a brilliant man
I was very interested in learning how Steve Jobs accomplished so much and with such creativity. I admire him and appreciated this book.
A very long book, but with so much information about Steve Jobs, of course! He is a great author, and I read all his books!
Book well written, but I still think Steve Jobs was a jerk to his friends and family
An interesting look into a complicated life
Well written and engaging
GREAT READ
LOVED learning about the life of Steve Jobs. Interesting beginning to his life!!! The author does a wonderful job of chronicling Steve’s life, with all it bumps, potholes and faults. He was quite a complex guy, but, wow, what he gave he world! Very interesting to read about the creation of all my Apple devices: phone, computer, iPad, etc. and …
Fascinating!
The reader will learn much about Steve Jobs and his professional life, some about his personal life. Not everything is admirable, but it is all interesting, and well told. Good read.