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Karen Blumenthal

Steve Jobs

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Inventor. Visionary. Genius. Dropout. Adopted. Steve Jobs was the founder of Apple and he was all of these things. Steve Jobs has been described as a showman, artist, tyrant, genius, jerk. Through his life he was loved, hated, admired and dismissed, yet he was a living legend; the genius who founded Apple in his parent's garage when he was just 21 years-old, revolutionising the music world. He single-handedly introduced the first computer that could sit on your desk and founded and nurtured a company called Pixar bringing to life Oscar wining animations Toy Story and Finding Nemo. So how did the man, who was neither engineer nor computer geek change the world we live in, making us want every product he touched? On graduation day in 2005, a fifty-year-old Steve Jobs said: 'Today I want to tell you three stories from my life, That's it. Just three stories'. The first story is about connecting the dots. My second story is about love and loss. My third story is about death. This is his story…Critically acclaimed author Karen Blumenthal takes us to the core of this complicated and legendary man, from his adoption and early years through to the pinnacles of his career, his dismissal from his duties at Apple (for being too disruptive and difficult) to the graduation where he gave the commencement speech just 6 years before his death, giving life to what were soon to become some of most famous quotes of his career, ending with the message: «Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.»«Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.»
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262 printed pages
Publication year
2012
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  • Marina Mikhaylovashared an impression10 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot

    It was great! Full history of computer evolution from the very beginning.

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  • Ola Kolasashared an impression5 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot
    💞Loved Up
    🚀Unputdownable

    Fantastic. Really worth reading especially for Apple lovers

Quotes

  • oscarsanglayhas quoted10 years ago
    “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
  • b0356287009has quoted2 days ago
    1983, had sunk, and the value of Jobs’s stock had fallen more than $200 million from a peak above $450 million. He laughed at the enormous loss, saying, “It’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me in the past ten years.”
    He had been thinking about an old Hindu saying: “for the first thirty years of your life, you make your habits. For the last thirty years of your life, your habits make you.” And he was reflective about Apple, almost predicting that major changes were ahead: “I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.”
    His old friend Steve Wozniak had done that – after getting his degree, he had returned to Apple in 1983 to work on improvements to the Apple II. But in February 1985, he left again, saying he wanted to develop a new kind of remote control. He was also upset that the company he co-founded was mostly ignoring the Apple II, repeatedly focusing on the newest computers in the family when the various Apple IIs provided most of its sales. Woz also revealed that he had sold most of his stock, putting $70 million into safe investments.
    Still, he wasn’t leaving completely; he would remain a consultant on a modest retainer, reported at

    1983, se había hundido, y el valor de las acciones de Jobs había caído más de 2 200 millones desde un máximo por encima de above 450 millones. Se rió de la enorme pérdida y dijo: "No es lo más perspicaz o valioso que me ha sucedido en los últimos diez años.”
    Había estado pensando en un viejo dicho hindú: "durante los primeros treinta años de tu vida, creas tus hábitos. Durante los últimos treinta años de tu vida, tus hábitos te hacen. Y reflexionó sobre Apple, casi prediciendo que se avecinaban cambios importantes: "Espero que a lo largo de mi vida tenga el hilo de mi vida y el hilo de Apple entrelazándose el uno con el otro, como un tapiz. Puede haber algunos años en los que no esté allí, pero siempre volveré.”
    Su viejo amigo Steve Wozniak había hecho eso: después de graduarse, había regresado a Apple en 1983 para trabajar en mejoras para el Apple II. Pero en febrero de 1985, se fue nuevamente, diciendo que quería desarrollar un nuevo tipo de control remoto. También estaba molesto porque la compañía que cofundó ignoraba principalmente al Apple II, centrándose repetidamente en las computadoras más nuevas de la familia cuando los diversos Apple II proporcionaban la mayor parte de sus ventas. Woz también reveló que había vendido la mayor parte de sus acciones, destinando 70 millones de dólares a inversiones seguras.
    Aún así, no se iba por completo; seguiría siendo un consultor con un modesto anticipo, informó en

  • b9684055077has quoted3 years ago
    the inventor Thomas Edison

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