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"-- Includes bibliographical references pages and index How this book came to be -- Childhood: abandoned and chosen -- Odd couple: the two Steves -- The dropout: turn on, tune in There are no reviews yet.
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 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 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.
It was my intention that by looking at him, that you knew this guy was smart. I heard later that it was his favorite photograph of all time. Jobs gave Watson an hour—longer than he had given most photographers for a portrait session.
Watson reportedly instructed Jobs to make '95 percent, almost percent of eye contact with the camera,' and to 'think about the next project you have on the table,' in addition to thinking about instances when people have challenged him. The back cover uses another photographic portrait of Jobs taken in his living room in Woodside, California in February by Norman Seeff. In a Behind the Cover article published by TIME magazine, Seeff recalls him and Jobs 'just sitting' on his living room floor, talking about 'creativity and everyday stuff,' when Jobs left the room and returned with a Macintosh K the original Macintosh computer.
Jobs '[plopped] down' in the lotus position holding the computer in his lap when Seeff took the photograph. We did do a few more shots later on, and he even did a few yoga poses—he lifted his leg and put it over his shoulder—and I just thought we were two guys hanging out, chatting away, and enjoying the relationship.
It wasn't like there was a conceptualization here—this was completely off the cuff, spontaneity that we never thought would become an iconic image. Although author Walter Isaacson was 'never quite sure about it', his wife and daughter reportedly were. However, they thought it was 'too cutesy' and as a result Isaacson persuaded the publisher to change the title to something 'simpler and more elegant. The title Steve Jobs was allegedly chosen to reflect Jobs's 'minimalist' style and to emphasize the biography's authenticity, further differentiating it from unauthorized publications, such as iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business by Jeffrey Young.
Steve Jobs is a drama film based on the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender in the title role. The film is directed by Danny Boyle, produced by Scott Rudin, and written by Aaron Sorkin with a screenplay adapted both from Isaacson's Steve Jobs as well as from interviews conducted by Sorkin. Extracts from the biography have been the feature of various magazines, in addition to interviews with the author, Walter Isaacson.
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