Re:How Steve Jobs Became a Billionaire
by astrodust on Thursday November 03, 2016 @03:35PM
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He left Apple as a loose canon, a renegade who kept sabotaging his own projects, often losing touch with reality.
NeXT brought him back to Earth, both in terms of being able to produce a product people wanted, and in terms of managing a team without being a total tyrant. It wasn't a smooth progression, NeXT did start out pretty out-there, but in the end it was more pragmatic. OpenSTEP and other efforts demonstrated that.
The Isaacson biography isn't worth the paper it's printed on. It's utter garbage. I can't believe someone has that level of access and churns out a book that's basically the Cliff's Notes version of all other books about Jobs already published.
Becoming Steve Jobs is more focussed on that period: https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Steve-Jobs-Evolution-Visiona...
Awesome! Thanks for the recommendation.
Re:How Steve Jobs Became a Billionaire
by mandeepj on Thursday November 03, 2016 @04:25PM
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>(btw, if anyone can recommend material on this period of his life, I'd love to know!)
I recommend you this book to read. https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Steve-Jobs-Evolution-Visiona...
This is what makes me most sad about Isaacson's biography. He left out the one period that I was most interested in. The time at NeXT, combined with the developments in his 'family situation' seemed to have really changed him for the better (or at least better at running a company). I was so curious about that, and instead I got stuff I mostly knew about and too-frequent descriptions of Jobs' tantrums/meltdowns. Such a shame.
(btw, if anyone can recommend material on this period of his life, I'd love to know!)