Acabei hoje de ler a biografia do Steve Jobs, pode-se dizer muitas coisas sobre ele mas ninguém pode negar que é o empresário mais importante dos últimos 30 anos. Quando regressou à Apple em 1997 a empresa estava a 90 dias da falência e só se manteve à tona graças a uma injecção de 195 milhões da Microsoft. Quando o Jobs deixou a empresa em 2011 a Apple era a empresa mais valiosa do mundo. Com a sua apetência de cruzar a tecnologia com a arte ele revolucionou as industrias dos computadores, músicas, cinema de animação, tablets, publicações, etc.Steve Jobs is the authorized biography of Steve Jobs. The biography was written at the request of Jobs by acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson, a former executive at CNN and Time who has written best-selling biographies about Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—in addition to interviews with more than one hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Isaacson was given "exclusive and unprecedented" access to Jobs's life. Jobs is said to have encouraged the people interviewed to speak honestly. Although Jobs cooperated with the book, he asked for no control over its content other than the book's cover, and waived the right to read it before it was published.
Originally planned for release on March 6, 2012, its release date was moved forward to November 21, 2011 due to Jobs's deteriorating health, and again following Jobs's death on October 5, 2011.
The book is described as "[chronicling] 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."
In just over 600 pages, the book covers Jobs' entire life, from his childhood in his adoptive parents' home in California to his three bouts with pancreatic cancer. Early chapters include one on his relationship with Steve Wozniak and Jobs' brief stint at Hewlett-Packard, Reed College, Atari, and a formative trip to India to find himself. A chapter each is devoted to the development of the Apple I, Apple II, Lisa, and the classic Macintosh during his early years, the founding of NeXT and funding of Pixar when he was ousted from Apple, and Jobs' triumphant and incredibly productive return to Apple starting in 1997. It is the latter "second coming" of Jobs when Isaacson chronicles the development the iMac, iPod, iTunes, Apple Stores, and iPad. Jobs' abrasive personality, which simultaneously inspired and intimidated those around him, is a recurrent theme throughout. Details of his personal life are included, including early relationships, his marriage of twenty years, and his four children. Also included are Job's complicated relationships with the giants of Silicon Valley, including Microsoft co-founder and then-CEO Bill Gates.
Este livro é um must para quem gosta de informática e tecnologia.