| |
Inventor. Visionary. Genius. Dropout. Adopted. Steve Jobs was the founder of Apple and hewas 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 whenhe was just 20 years old, revolutionising the music world. He single-handedly introduced the first computerthat could sit on your desk and founded and nurtured a company called Pixar bringing to life Oscar wininganimations Toy Story and Finding Nemo.So how did the man, who was neither engineer nor computer geek change the world we live in, making uswant 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 andlegendary man, from his adoption and early years through to the pinnacles of his career, hisdismissal from his duties at Apple (for being too disruptive and difficult) to the graduation wherehe gave the commencement speech just 6 years before his death, giving life to what were soon tobecome some of most famous quotes of his career, ending with the message: “Stay Hungry. StayFoolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wishthat for you.”“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
ISBN - 9781408832066
|
| |
Pages : 256
|