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Steve Jobs is the authorized self-titled biography of American business magnate and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The book was written at the request of Jobs by Walter Isaacson, a former executive at CNN and Time who had previously written best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. [1] [2]
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Isaacson's book Steve Jobs, about the life of the entrepreneur, earned Isaacson the 2012 Gerald Loeb Award. [49] In 2012, he was selected as one of the Time 100, the magazine's list of the most influential people in the world. [50] Isaacson is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was awarded its 2013 Benjamin Franklin Medal.
Isaacson's account of cultural influences on Jobs was my favorite part of the book. As a young man, Jobs read Shakespeare and Plato, and he liked King Lear and Moby Dick. He also loved the music ...
Author Walter Isaacson — known for his best-selling biography of Jobs — called Musk "in some ways the Steve Jobs of our time," saying both figures exemplify immense ambition, relentless drive ...
The book has a few stories that would come as a surprise to Microsoft investors, besides the tale of Gates first meeting a brash Jobs at a conference in the late 70s.
[158] [159] Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson "...he came to like the idea of having a uniform for himself, both because of its daily convenience (the rationale he claimed) and its ability to convey a signature style". [158] Jobs and Bill Gates were a panel at the fifth D: All Things Digital conference in 2007.
Steve Jobs was an American pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s who, along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, founded Apple Computer.Before and after his death in 2011, Jobs was known as a counter-culture figure within the computer industry, and as a perfectionist who could be demanding of his colleagues and employees—sometimes to the point of cruelty.