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

The human put here for our future.

Loved this book . Wish we have more people like him .
He will be missed . Genius .

Inspirational!

Job’s obsession for creating great products and building companies that advance humankind made this book and his character a mesmerizing and intriguing pull. The narrator was also great!

Extremely Insightful and Interesting

This biography was a great and engaging story. It was insightful because I never knew much about Steve Jobs but from what others have said about him in the public. Steve was a very interesting man and I learned a great deal from his life. It’s a read that I would recommend everyone listens to with caution because there was a lot of cursing used. All in all, it’s a fine story.

In-depth, fascinating portrayal

Insightful novel that carefully details the Inspirational life of a legendary tech leader and marketing genius.

I appreciated how the book provides an unbiased, detailed account of the man’s life, career, successes and failures.

The author demonstrates how the successes and creative brilliance of Steve Jobs were tightly woven with the less admirable aspects of his character. (accurately and indiscriminately detailing examples where Jobs behaved like an entitled, petulant man who epitomized egotism).

Great book - Moved by his level of dedication

It acted as an encouragement to keep thinking outside the box, and don’t limit oneself to existing rules.

Well shared

I didn’t know what to expect, because I didn’t know who he was. However, I feel that his story was well written, and shared. I was glad to hear the insights from all who had contact with him and that he didn’t man handle his biography the way he did everything else in his life. What a great man despite his flaws may he rest in peace. I recommend this book.

Great Book..

Great Book.. I really enjoyed it. You really feel like you know Jobs now. An incredible mam. A Genius who changed the world..

Outstanding biography, whiny narrator

Fascinating history of Apple and Steve Jobs, but the narrator often sounds like his is whining or complaining, especially when reading dialogue.

 Es el primer tipo de genio que fue más gestor que inventor pero que igualmente cambió el mundo

Creo que le faltó algo esencial y son los tiempos previos a cada presentación de producto icono.
No puede ser que no salga mencionada la presentación del primer iPhone

Incredible

An intimate story of a flawed but genius man. Inspiring, informational and thought provoking. Great author.