Steve Jobs

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Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs (2011, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

English language

Published Dec. 12, 2011 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

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978-0-7481-3132-7
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Based on more than forty 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 twenty-first 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 …

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Subjects

  • Apple computer, inc.
  • Chief executive officers
  • Jobs, steve, 1955-2011
  • Businesspeople, biography