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Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

By Walter Isaacson

Simon and Schuster, 2011.

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A brief summary of Steve Jobs

An exclusive, no-holds-barred biography on Steve Jobs conducted with his full cooperation and based on two years of research and interviews with the man himself as well as with friends, family, and colleagues.

Key insights in Steve Jobs

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What do you get from this book? Learn the real story behind Steve jobs’ enormous success
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Steve jobs was adopted but grew up surrounded by engineers who sparked his love of technology
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Atari gave jobs a technical position, but he and Wozniak went off on their own and invented apple
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Jobs’ daughter was born; he named a computer after her while taking apple public and becoming a millionaire
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Jobs’ difficult behavior resulted in clashes at work, though his core team members knew how to handle him
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The Macintosh’s simple interface and clean design made it a huge hit with stockholders and consumers despite initial setbacks
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Things began falling apart at apple after mac sales declined, Wozniak left, and jobs was asked to step down
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After leaving apple, jobs founded next computers without much success and invested in Pixar with monumental success
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in 1986, jobs found his birth mother and biological sister; in 1991, he married Laurene Powell
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Jobs returned to apple in 1997, became CEO, and launched the iMac a year later
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Apple retail stores opened in 2001; iPods and iTunes launched shortly thereafter, changing the way consumers shopped
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Apple faced legal troubles in the early and mid-2000s but bounced back strong with the iPhone’s launch
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The iPad launched in 2010, but it found a swift competitor in google android
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A cancer diagnosis in 2003 forced jobs to take several leaves of absence as he attempted to treat it
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Who should read Steve Jobs

Entrepreneurs • startups • technology enthusiasts • computer professors and students • Silicon Valley historians • anyone interested in Steve Jobs

About the author of Steve Jobs

Journalist and professor Walter Isaacson is the bestselling author of over a half-dozen books and was editor for Time magazine. From 2001–2003, he served as the CEO and chair of CNN. From 2003–2018, he was the CEO and President of the Aspen Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the study of humanity. He currently teaches at Louisiana’s Tulane University.

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