Steve Jobs

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 25 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

Featuring a new epilogue read by the author.

From the author of the best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs.

Based on more than 40 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 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 21st 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. 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.

©2011 Walter Isaacson (P)2011 Simon & Schuster

A must read for anyone in business

What did you love best about Steve Jobs?

With Steve things were either great or s--t. This book is great. A must read for anyone in business.

Awesome and entertaining.

Great biography of a great man. Informative and entertaining all the way through . The narrator did a fantastic job.

Francisco A. Marín López

Es una buena historia que muestra la arrazadora personalidad de este visionario del mundo de la tecnología y el diseño y el cual nos da ánimos para ser más innovadores y crear lo que verdaderamente queremos crear en nuestras vidas y no lo que otros quieran que nosotros creemos...

A captivating read

I was drawn in and felt as if I knew Steve Jobs and his family and friends personally. An astounding, complicated man who did change the world. The writing was superb and the narrator as well. Highly recommend.

Great book, well read

Very insightful. Would recommend it to anybody interested in the history of Apple and Steve Jobs. Definitely not biased, as it shows Steve as both a genius and an asshole. Even though Steve participated and it's writing, he never read it nor had any control over the content. Very good book

An amazing story of a man, who changed my view to the world

Before reading this book I thought Steve Jobs was only another entrepreneur, who built something amazing and made a lot money with it, but now knowing his story I became a huge fan of this brilliant mind, who literally changed the world. This book is a must read!

A man who knew simple

This book really tells who Steve Jobs was.... Straight-shooter, Cold at times, mostly though. Everything had to his way. and I have to say I am happy to know the real Steve Jobs. If Steve Jobs hadn't made his products a reality, people with disabilities may not be as independent as they are today including myself. In this book you get to know the personal struggles of Steve Jobs from being adopted, to being a difficult but loving father. it can be boring in parts, but please push through anyway....Thank you Steve Jobs.

Jobs

The words engender awe, respect and imagination - the story of a rare, gifted individual who made the earth a better place.

GREATEST BOOK EVER!!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

If you ever thought Steve Jobs was an overrated, arrogant, selfish, self-absorbed, petulant, churlish a**h*le who got very lucky and rich by associating and using/abusing people with more talent and better ideas than he had (and freely taking credit for them), well, this is the book for you my friend because it confirms it all. Kids out of wedlock, absentee father, disgusting personal grooming habits, abusive employer and all-around sh*t--well, that about sums up Steve Jobs. If he had become an religious evangelist, he'd be Jim Jones squared. Fortunately he only went into computers, so no one died. Well, thankfully, he did.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Steve Jobs is shown for the total tool he was.

Which scene was your favorite?

Steve washing his feet in the toilet. Someone should have flushed just then and maybe he'd have gone down the bowl.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Yeah, what a totally crappy father he was to his kids--including his out-of-wedlock daughter which he, in typical fashion, ignored and initially claimed wasn't his.

Any additional comments?

Loved the book. The truth is tough to take.

loved it!

Finally got around to listening to this book and it was worth it. Highly recommended.