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

SUPERB!!!!

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This was just overal excellent... I learned so much about Jobs through this book.

A great listen

This was a fantastic book. I got the hardcover edition as a gift a while back, but it's really long, and heavy, thus I avoided reading it. I listened to the last half of the Audible version in one afternoon. The story of Apple's turnaround is enthralling, and I believe this to be a balanced, well researched biography of Apple's visionary, if mercurial leader. I couldn't stop listening. I liked it so much, I added his biography about Einstein to my wish list, and it'll probably be my next book.

This book was not.... shit.

Steve Jobs would have approved of this book. He truly was the one and only.

What's behind the cover?

What made the experience of listening to Steve Jobs the most enjoyable?

A fascinating (read) listen about a man that I'd not known anything about, other than he was born in the same year I was.

What did you like best about this story?

Steve Jobs was obviously a brilliant man, yet common as all of us in many, many ways.

Any additional comments?

I can't help but wonder, if the mapping problems the iPhone 5 has at its recent release would it have been released with Jobs present? Things that make you go hmmm. Because of that mapping release, I can't help but wonder will Apple be able to maintain its perfectionism?

Wonderful life

We totally lived the life as a close friend of Steve Jobs while reading and listening to this story. The narration was just perfect and by the end this story had touched, moved and inspired us to make a difference in our world. Thank you.

Fascinating

Where does Steve Jobs rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This is an amazing book. It's not sanitized. Steve Jobs was brilliant, but also flawed. This book presents the good and the bad.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Steve Jobs?

He had a ferocious temper. This was so interesting in the book

Which character – as performed by Dylan Baker – was your favorite?

Steve Jobs himself. Was well done.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Like all humans, Steve Jobs was flawed. However his brilliance and contribution to humanity is massive, and this book really gave me a good picture of who this guy was.

Any additional comments?

Fantastic. He changed the world, one of the most important people in history.

O ever youthful, O ever weeping

A super detailed description and thorough analysis of Jobs' great life and great mind. It's good that the author did not deify Jobs, and the character actually feels real. That being said, the book could be much more concise. Great performance!

Great Book

Would you listen to Steve Jobs again? Why?

Yes. its very detailed and almost like i know him as a person after listening to the book

What did you like best about this story?

the amount of detail

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

yes

Any additional comments?

Great book. The Aurthur did an awesome job on the amount of detail he put in the story events.

Oh this reader!

Love the story, but frequently have to grit my teeth to tolerate Mr. Baker's annoying overemphasis of practically every other word.

Amazing & Mesmorizing

The story is one thing but the reader was incredible. I loved the depth and detail. I commute 90 mins one way to and from home to my job. I rarely look forward to this drive. This book and it's subject memorized me from beginning to end and traffic was a distant wit for me. Steve Jobs was such a polarizing individual that I'm most happy to know I got to live and use some of the magic he created.