Steve Jobs

The Exclusive Biography

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Dylan Baker, Walter Isaacson (introduction)

Length: 25 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

From best-selling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members and key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.

With an introduction read by the author.

©2011 Walter Isaacson (P)2011 Simon & Schuster Inc

Very very good audio book

Amazing biography detailing all of Stevens accomplishments and well as deeply examines who jobs was, at a very personal level. The book itself and the narrator are perfect.

Looong, but interesting

So this was a really long book. It gave a good overview of Jobs' life and the development of Apple, though. The author showed the different facets of Jobs and does not shy away from calling him both a genius and an asshole. He interviewed many different people for the book, and does not forget to mention the names of those who also contributed in a major way to the success of Apple products.

Superb !!!

Would you consider the audio edition of Steve Jobs to be better than the print version?

For slacker like me, YES the audio edition is perhaps better ....

What did you like best about this story?

The personality of Steve and his social behaviour was extremely amusing.... His aspirations and the effort he put to turn them to reality are truly inspiring

What does Dylan Baker and Walter Isaacson (introduction) bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

the emotions and the tone of how steve actually said it

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

"Shut up and do it ! " ... Although, I feel this lessens the charisma he truly was and would therefore not be quite upto the mark

Any additional comments?

Would have loved to hear more details to be able to decipher how I could be a small version of him .... Was a fan of his earlier, now simply look upto him more than anyone else ....

helps one in understanding self

helps one in understanding self, deciding what to expect from life, people around you and the world at large.

Go get it!

Go get this book! It's worth more than what you are paying for it.

I am still part way through it and totally hooked. But it is the most honest and refreshing book you will ever read. Besides giving you the real history of Steve Jobs, the fullness gives you perspective of a very private person's life. Only Gandhi's autobiography was more honest and that is saying something.

There are books which inspire, there are those which are PR excercises and then those which inflame or criticize. This book just gives an honest, comprehensive and loose narrative of his life.

Don't look at the cynical reviews. This book is about a man who was faulty, egoistic, problematic and whole lot of other things. But, he changed the world and forced us all to think different... and we are all better for it.

What a stoty! Worth reading

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

ntertaining - Steve Jobs had an eventful life, he experimented, challenged convention, succeeded, failed, annoyed...and was anything but boring.

Challenging - this book challenged my views of good and evil, of the end justifying or not justifying the means... of the liberties that are and should be granted to genius.


Moving - under everything is a man, a child rejected by a mother and put up for adoption, and insecure adult, a manipulator and a person struggling with his own mortality.

This book describes one individual’s journey through life. A unique journey but a universal one too as we have all suffered success and failure, rejection. We all have been manipulated and manipulated others... The human experience! The book teaches you about Steve Jobs but also about yourself, if you monitor your gut responses' to his behavior.
I am still not sure what I think of Steve Jobs but I understand what a complex and extreme example he is of a human being. This book gives a window into how he thought and the importance he placed on his legacy - his products and his company.
Also I would like to warn you that this book is a great book to understand the man Steve Jobs, but not the book to understand apple, or how the company will and did create the products they have. If some of you want to get this to understand apple they might be disappointed.
It's clearly not a book about a poor kid becomes good, it's a real life experience on someone who was great and a complete a-hole at times. In short read and enjoy, but don't use it as some sort of study bible.

To conclude I would say the book is nice and worth the price but don’t expect to be blown away … I am sure there are great books about.

fascinating

i was struggling to finish this Jobs story, as i am a Chinese speaker, but that is not stop me from loving this.

The Portrait of the Genius who changed the World

Mr. Isaacson describes the life of Steve Jobs, the greatest entrepreneurial genius of our time, as if has been accompanying him all his life.

This was the most enjoyable biography I've ever read.

Brilliant writer great story

Steve Jobs a visionary an a-hole and a legend. A book that makes you think and reflect. The writer can’t be any better. I need a book on how the write wrote the book.

To the mercurials

Steve Jobs' life being told in a balance way, not as a fairytale story, but a person's life, with highs and lows. I think he would have appreciated it, I surely did.