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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor
6 biographies about them · 15 books they recommend
Biographies about them 6
The most complete founder literature in tech: one authorised life, one corrective, plus family and era accounts.
Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli · 2015 · Written as a corrective to Isaacson; backed by Apple executives.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs · 2018 · Memoir by his daughter; the closest thing to a private record.
Alan Deutschman · 2000 · The NeXT and Pixar wilderness years, written before the iPod.
Jeffrey S. Young, William L. Simon · 2005 · Unauthorised; Jobs had Apple pull the publisher's books from stores.
Randall E. Stross · 1993 · Contemporaneous account of the NeXT failure.
Books they recommend 15
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