Steve Jobs
By Walter Isaacson
Simon and Schuster, 2011.
Summary of Steve Jobs book by Walter Isaacson
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.
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What do you get from this book? Learn the real story behind Steve jobs’ enormous success
Steve jobs was adopted but grew up surrounded by engineers who sparked his love of technology
Atari gave jobs a technical position, but he and Wozniak went off on their own and invented apple
Jobs’ daughter was born; he named a computer after her while taking apple public and becoming a millionaire
Jobs’ difficult behavior resulted in clashes at work, though his core team members knew how to handle him
The Macintosh’s simple interface and clean design made it a huge hit with stockholders and consumers despite initial setbacks
Things began falling apart at apple after mac sales declined, Wozniak left, and jobs was asked to step down
After leaving apple, jobs founded next computers without much success and invested in Pixar with monumental success
in 1986, jobs found his birth mother and biological sister; in 1991, he married Laurene Powell
Jobs returned to apple in 1997, became CEO, and launched the iMac a year later
Apple retail stores opened in 2001; iPods and iTunes launched shortly thereafter, changing the way consumers shopped
Apple faced legal troubles in the early and mid-2000s but bounced back strong with the iPhone’s launch
The iPad launched in 2010, but it found a swift competitor in google android
A cancer diagnosis in 2003 forced jobs to take several leaves of absence as he attempted to treat it
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About the author of Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
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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