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  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
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  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
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  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
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Steve Jobs

IndustriesBiographiesTechnology founders

Co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976; after the board fired him in 1985 he founded NeXT and bought Pixar, then returned to run Apple. Died in 2011.

ApplePixarNeXT

8 biographies about them · 15 books they recommend

Biographies 8Recommends 15Profiles 4

The most complete founder literature in tech: one authorised life, one corrective, plus family and era accounts.

Steve JobsSteve Jobs
T1 Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Steve Jobs's life and Apple's products, from forty interviews with him and many more.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 17 others

Becoming Steve JobsBecoming Steve Jobs
T2 Becoming Steve Jobs
Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the NeXT and Pixar years changed Steve Jobs into the leader who rebuilt Apple.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gates, Brian Armstrong and 5 others

Small FrySmall Fry
T2 Small Fry
Lisa Brennan-Jobs · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

A daughter's memoir of a California childhood between her mother and Steve Jobs.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Vlad Tenev

The Second Coming of Steve JobsThe Second Coming of Steve Jobs
T3 The Second Coming of Steve Jobs
Alan Deutschman · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

Steve Jobs's years at NeXT and Pixar and his return to Apple.

iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act iniCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
T3 iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
Jeffrey S. Young, William L. Simon · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Steve Jobs's success at Pixar and his revival of Apple with the iMac and iPod.

Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big ThingSteve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing
T4 Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing
Randall E. Stross · 1993
Open LibraryGoodreads

Contemporaneous account of the NeXT failure.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Keith Rabois

I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own WordsI, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words
T4 I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words
George Beahm
Goodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Inside Steve's BrainInside Steve's Brain
T3 Inside Steve's Brain
Leander Kahney · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Management-lessons treatment of Jobs's second tenure.