Steve Jobs, 1955, was born on February 24th in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an American inventor, entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple. He is a very creative entrepreneur. Steve Jobs has a wonderful life like a roller coaster, with a sharp and exciting personality, full of passion to pursue perfection and never give up.

Jobs created subversive changes in six major industries, including personal computers, animated films, music, mobile phones, tablet computers and digital publishing. Jobs's personality often makes people around him angry and desperate, but the products he created are also closely related to this personality and are completely inseparable, just like Apple's hardware and software.

Steve Jobs, 1972, only studied at Reed College in Portland, Oregon for one semester after graduating from high school. 1974 Jobs got a job designing computer games in a company. Two years later, Jobs and Wozniak, then 2 1, then 26, set up Apple Computer Company in Jobs' garage.

NeXT company was founded in1985; In the same year, he was awarded the National Technical Medal by President Reagan. 1996, Apple re-hired Jobs as its part-time consultant; 1September 1997, Jobs returned to the company as CEO. 1997 became the cover of Time magazine; In 2009, he was selected by Fortune magazine as the best CEO of the United States in this decade, and in the same year, he was elected as one of Time magazine's man of the year.

The extended material "Biography of Jobs" was written by Walter Isaacson, a famous writer, on the basis of more than 40 face-to-face exchanges with Jobs and interviews with more than 65,438+000 family members, friends, competitors and colleagues of Jobs in the past two years.

Isaacson is the former editor-in-chief of Time magazine and the chairman and CEO of CNN. He has written bestsellers such as Biography of Einstein, Biography of Kissinger and Biography of Franklin.

In memory of Jobs, on the day of his death, American publisher Simon &; Schustr decided to advance the publication date originally scheduled for 2011121to1October 24th. Citic Publishing House, as the only publishing agency of this biography in Chinese mainland, will also launch this officially authorized simplified Chinese version simultaneously with the world on 20110.24.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Biography of Jobs