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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.
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- JPD
- 13-06-2019
Fantastic story
My sister in law purchased the hard cover of this for me however as I am dyslexic when I saw how thickness of the book it was put off and did not start reading it.
I am so thankful to audible and that I purchased this audible book, it may be LONG but it is well worth the time. It is a fantastic story of an amazing man who changed so much for everyone. He was an interesting character and possibly not someone you wanted to get on the wrong side of but the book evenly tells his story with the good and the not so. He was clearly a flawed person in many ways yet he still changed the world.
The narration was very good and at no point did I find the narrator irrigating. Would highly recommend this audio book to anyone wanting to know about Steve Jobs, Apple and how times have changed
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- Chris Williams
- 12-08-2020
It's a long book but it was all worth it
I was a bit concerned about the length of the book. In most cases, I think a good editor could have shortened it....but this all worked. I'm not a fan of his nor a computer geek but it was a really interesting story.
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- sawan serasinghe
- 14-11-2019
Better than what I expected
I was a bit sceptical going into the book but I’m very glad that I did. It was very well written and enjoyed it more than I thought I would. And this is coming from someone who’s not a die hard Apple fan
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- Colzz
- 21-10-2019
Interesting and very detailed
This book goes into a lot of detail. Jobs had an amazing roller coaster life. I could’ve done without the 20 minutes spent literally listing all the music on Steve’s iPod, I’m deducting a star (my god that was boring).
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- ST
- 24-08-2019
Entertaining and candid bio
This is a pretty great biography. I'm not an Apple megafan, but I still found plenty to enjoy here.
The bio is honest about Jobs' many failings and seems to get to the heart of what made him great.
Jobs led an interesting and varied life and there's a lot more to it than I previously realised. If you're interested in a great story about an innovator and free thinker and what made him tick, I'd recommend it.
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- Jennifer
- 20-01-2019
So interesting!
Steve Jobs story is so interesting!! A bit flat at times with it being such a long book, though mostly ups and wow moments! So many things I didn’t know about him! Loved it
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- Dory
- 10-06-2017
great book
got hooked up to it.
gives you the insights you never knew about one of the world greatest company.
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- Jose
- 23-05-2017
A must listen for an aspiring Entrepreneur
I found this biography enthralling from beginning to end. It made me realise why as I've grown and matured have gravitated to Apple products. Jobs has left a long lasting legacy on humanity and in my view this book does justice to his achievements and purpose. One of my biggest takes from this book is that it was Jobs purpose and desire to create great products that drove Apple to become the most valuable tech company in the world - not the other way around. Food for thought for those of us aspiring to bring a solution to market.
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- Dale Brown
- 03-01-2017
Facinating History
I lived through these times so the book filled in all the pieces for me. Job's was an icon of the 20th and 21st century. Great, great man in the mould of Di Vincy.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-04-2021
Business that focused on products, not profit!
Perhaps the best book I have read/heard on building a successful business that puts creativity and focus on products more than any other factor!
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- Jp
- 24-11-2011
Fantastic listening, finally a book that actually
I found this audio book to be one of the best books i have heard. It was refreshing to actually hear the real stories behind the man. There is no doubt that Walter Isaacson has truly got a very detailed behind the scene account of some of the dealings not only with Jobs, but with Apple, Pixar, Next, Mac plus much more. Fantastic book
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- Stuart Woodward
- 04-11-2011
Great story, fine reader.
Firstly, I don't really understand the complaints about the reader. I thought he was fine.
This is a great book, very timely and obviously one of Steve Jobs last works with him commissioning it so that his story would be told, warts and all. I couldn't put it down.
It so sad to think that we hoped Steve Jobs would show up for the announcement of the iPhone 4S when he was in fact so close to death. The book details the back story behind the releases of the iPhone and iPad and you get the impression that Jobs put all of his strength into them once he knew that his time was limited. The impending tragedy of his early death in some way contributed to some of his greatest achievements.
Only being a recent Mac convert, much of the early history was new to me. I probably disliked Steve Jobs and Bill Gates equally throughout the 90s but my impressions of them changed throughout the book. I really have a much greater respect for Bill Gates as a result of the character that is revealed in the book. I feel I have understood what Steve Jobs was about and what he was trying to achieve. Steve Wozniak comes across as the wonderful Tom Bombadill character that we know and love.
It' s hard to summarize what I feel about Steve Jobs. So much to admire, but such a flawed character. Very thought provoking story.
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- john
- 24-11-2011
More man, less tech, might have made a better book
At the end of this book Isaacson gives us some new information, especially relating to Job's family. This was great and makes the book worth the price.
But be clear that stuff up until 1985 is far better covered in the books Isaacson has taken the stories from (sometimes distorting them in the process).
Check out:
Revolution in the Valley
Infinite Loop
Return to the Little Kingdom
for the source material of these stories.
Isaacson seems to lack the knowledge of the technical aspects and the curiosity to ask people who do know to tell the wheat from the chaff in these early stories. He will present stuff that doesn't matter and trim away stuff that does. If the only source you have for these stories is Isaacson's book you will have a distorted, and sometimes false, impression of what happened.
Now I suspect Isaacson would say he was interested in the man and the life lived and not so much these technical details. That's, in fact what I expected this book to be about with most of this tech stuff skimmed over. But Isaacson chooses to put in a substantial amount of details where he clearly doesn't know what they mean in themselves and fails to examine usefully what they tell us about the life being examined.
I don't want to give the impression this is a bad book. It is not. It is fine. But it is flawed in several ways because Isaacson seems to be disinterested in the tech and disinterested in examining what the tech means.
This could have been a better book if it was more about the man and floated past some of the tech bits that are inexact retellings of stories that Andy Hertzfeld and others have told better and, in my opinion, used better to paint what the man was like in his 20s.
I think Isaacson did not make the best use if the fact the he was given the power of 'exclusive'. As others have said, just as Steve chose the wrong guy for Apple when he chose Scully he chose the wrong guy for this book when he chose Isaacson. So many other people who had the writing skills aligned with a passionate interest in the subject could have done more with this unique opportunity. Isaacson's approach is solid, professional but pedestrian and uninspired given the amazing power he was given.
Anyway, get the book, it's well done an easily worth the money, However, do be careful about quoting too much of the details to those who are better informed on the subject because the list of corrections of technical fact and/or context you may get will be tedious for all concerned.
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- Mayur
- 08-09-2019
Greatest Piece of Inspiration!
If you're uncertain about career, read this.
If you want to start business, read this.
If you're struggling and are depressed, read this.
If you want inspiration, read this.
Whatever you want to achieve in life, Please read this book once.
Obsession to build products not for money, but for people to grow with better products.
Maybe I fell short to describe this book!
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- Jonathan
- 03-12-2011
Who was Steve jobs?
Would you listen to Steve Jobs again? Why?
I would listen to this book again after a short time has passed, I worked for apple, and found it explained some of the thing I did not understand about the way the did something's, this helped me see the why in there actions. Also the book is the first real insight we get into Steve jobs, and as such it's a large book to be able to ingest all at once. There is much to discover in this books and for that I would read it again.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Steve Jobs?
There was not one moment, as I am well versed in the history of apple, but I do rambler the parts where he traveled to India and sort his guru, and how he followed the zen budaist way. This was the most memorable moment as I too was born in India, understand the sights and smell he must of seen, and my parents and to some exstent also my self believe in buda. So it was nice to see a massive tech giant deal with lifes conflicting decision and what would drive him to make great products.
Which scene was your favorite?
As stated above the part heading to India, but there many other nice moment that brought a smile to my face, like working for Atari, or building the iPhone, the next cube, but there was some moments that will frustrate you also, like the canca, and what he did around his kids, how he treated people, and so on, but in the end it's all one man's life and there is much that can be learn from it.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
It is in possible to listen to in in one sitting, but I spend the corse of two week traveling back fourth from work, listening to the story unfold.
Any additional comments?
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. It's not a book about a poor kid becomes good, it's a real life experience on some one who was greate and a complete arsshole at times. In short read and enjoy, but don't use it as some sort of study bible.
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- Jacobus
- 26-01-2012
Brat, Business man, Visionary?
Walter Isaacson has written an honest and thought provoking biography of Steve Jobs. He has been able to show how Steve Jobs' personality has evolved, although the trademarks of brat, business man and visionary were always lurking in the background. I think this biography do more than pay homage to Jobs, it also can serve as a history - be it from a specific point of view - of Silicon Valley and more so the Apple company.
Dylan Baker reading didn't impressed me so much. It was fair, yet not as engaging as I would've expect. At times I had to rewind to relisten as I opted out, and it was definitely not because of the content.
However, this biography comes highly recommended as Steve Jobs' story is one that deserves to be listened to.
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- Marvin
- 25-10-2011
iInspired
Very inspiring.. i love Steve's childhood with all the "pranks", and the Tom-&-Hack team of Oaf Tobark and Berkeley Blue with their Blue-Box adventure...calling the Vatican, i wish i was there with them! Very inspiring business/life's philosophy.... a page turner! Steve Jobs, simply magical! iInspired!
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- Dontkickthebaby
- 28-10-2011
Just a loooong newspaper story
Walter Isaacson commits the Cardinal literary sin of telling us what Seve Jobs did with his life rather than showing us what he did. Instead of weaving a series of narratives -- rather than relating the stories that made up the life and times of Steve Jobs -- Isaacson throws a lot of quotes at us from Jobs and others. He fills in the spaces between these quotes with a few odd details, very few of which the reader/listener can really latch onto and use to build a moving narrative in the mind's eye.
And that's a shame, considering Isaacson was writing about an evil genius who touched hundreds of millions of people, disrupted numerous industries and left behind a legacy that is already being compared to Leonardo Da Vinci.
Fact is, there is a much, much better biography of Seve Jobs, and it is even available on audible: Alan Deutchman's "The Second Coming of Seve Jobs," published in 2001. Deutchman relates all the same tales, except he actually shows us the life of this man through the power of narrative. And except that Deutchman actually includes details that are rich in evocative power.
Do yourself a favor: Download Deutchman's book; not this clunker.
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- Sai
- 16-11-2011
Excellent audio book
Great audio book. This is one of the few books which would be much enjoyable listening than reading.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-10-2011
Very Inspiring
His life story may not be different to some of us but he has contributed significant accomplishments to the digital world. He has proven to the world that any person can make a difference regardless of where he or she came from.
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- Adam
- 01-11-2011
Fantastic
The best audiobook (and book) I've ever heard (or read). Insightful and well written Jobs led a very colourful life and for those interested in business you'll learn more by listening to this book than you will from the equivalent time in lectures at business school (though I'd probably ignore anything to do with human resource management from the school of Jobs!)
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- alw Audio
- 28-11-2011
A fascinating insight into a flawed genius
I'm not a fan of all of the approaches that Apple take to their products, but I do greatly appreciate and respect what they do well, and there's an awful lot they do exceptionally well.
With that proviso I found this book excellent and informative, I learnt things that I wasn't aware with regard to the links between Jobs / Wozniak and the early days of computing in the home, that I grew up with as a child. I also gained a great insight into the incredible attention to detail that has been part of everything Jobs has been involved in.
Jobs' utter dedication to perfection and driving those around him to achieve great things is brilliant, but is balanced by a character that, during his work life at least, has almost no empathy for others around him.
It's very much a warts 'n' all book in that sense, but the passion that Jobs and those that he surrounded himself with brought to their product design is inspiring to read, and leaves the reader wondering whether Apple would be what it is today if he'd been a little more sympathetic. I'm also left wondering whether the Apple he leaves behind will continue to create the new markets that now exist simply because of products Apple created, or improved, way beyond what others had done before.
The other sections of teh book are equally engaging, especially the sections about his time with Pixar where Jobs' more human side seems to come through and the genius of those around him is given more visibility.
I'm left with a view of a (literally) fatally flawed genius, whose passion drove some amazingly skilled people to do great things, but whose personality I dislike as much as I appreciate the products he helped to create.
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- Geoff
- 18-11-2011
Fantastic!
I didn't think I could manage 25hrs of an audio book, but I was enthralled with it. It confirms that Steve Jobs was not the kind of person many people would want to work for but was a genius who managed to put together Apple twice and Pixar. He was a visionary and he has changed the way many of us now work and play.
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- MariuszJanas
- 31-10-2011
Great biography
Very well wtitten biography. I am not an apple fan or consumer, but I always admired Steve Jobs. Even though I dont think he was a good person, he revolutionised the world of technology.
I was afraid that this might be a one-sided story, but it seems to give an objective image of Steve's life. The story is based on interviews with Jobs and a lot of other people who knew him.
Highly recomended
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- Sarah
- 11-12-2011
Interesting, informative and inspiring
Must admit I've worked in IT for years, and only recently bought an iPhone and then a iPad so I was curious about Jobs - the man who became a bit of an IT legend. While the book won't fulfil everyone (esp. if you already know a lot about Jobs and his career), for me, it was an interesting insight into a truly inspiring character. I liked it. Not an earth shattering book - but the closest to the true person I'd expect.
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- Kirstine
- 16-10-2012
A flawed genius
I have had Apple computers, etc, since 1988 and think they are wonderful so was intrigued to hear about the life of the man behind so many ground-breaking inventions that have changed to way we interact with computers, listen to words and music and communicate. It's a fascinating biography and lends credence to the belief that geniuses are difficult to live and work with. Steve Jobs was a strange mix of hippie non-conformist who cared little for the trappings of wealth and yet strove to make billions. A perfectionist over design and a visionary over creating things that we didn't think we wanted that we end up feeling unable to live without. His untimely death was a great loss to the world of new ideas. A great listen especially if you love Apple devices.
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- Salbu
- 04-11-2011
Amazing Life
No words to describe how much I enjoyed this. An ultimate classic for 'rebels' and 'odds'.
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- Steven
- 23-11-2011
The best out there - essential reading.
First the bad.. Essentially flawed - jumps around in time sometimes... Not as technical as I would have liked in important places. Accuracy of some things can be disputed. Feels written in a rush in places and could have done with more editing and rearranging.
Now the good. This totally overcomes the bad. This is a gripping Bio and well worth the hours of time to listen to. It is entertaining and really makes you think. It holds nothing back. In years to come there will be other more balanced BIO's perhaps with a more technical lean to them. Until then, this is the book to read.
I still give it 5 stars for effort.
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- mark
- 08-08-2016
surprising
surprising not being a apple fan you have to give the man credit he knew his stuff may even try an ipad
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- James K
- 12-10-2012
Author pulls no punches
Really interesting look at jobs life and his achievements. The author pulls no punches when it comes to jobs reputation. A really interesting and enjoyable read.
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