#214 Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

The saga of Steve Jobs is a Silicon Valley creation myth writ large. Launching a start up in his parents' garage and building it into the world's most valuable company. He didn't invent many things outright. But he was a master at putting together ideas. Art and technology in ways that invented the future.

Some leaders push innovation by being good at the big picture. Others do so by mastering details. Jobs did both. Relentlessly. Steve Jobs thus became the greatest business executive of our era.

The one most certain to be remembered a century from now. History will place him in the pantheon right next to Edison and Ford. Biographers are supposed to have the last word. But this is a biography of Steve Jobs. Even though he did not impose his legendary desire for control on this project.

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