Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is the authorized self-titled biography of American business magnate and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The book was written at the request of Jobs by Walter Isaacson, a former executive at CNN and TIME who had previously written best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.

Author background (0:35)

Introduction (1:04)

Ch. 1. Childhood: abandoned and chosen (1:40)

Ch. 2. Odd couple: the two Steves (2:41)

Ch. 3. The dropout: turn on, tune in (3:39)

Ch. 4. Atari and India: Zen and the art of game design (4:37)

Ch. 5. The Apple I: turn on, boot up, jack in (5:42)

Ch. 6. The Apple II: dawn of a new age (6:31)

Ch. 7. Chrisann and Lisa: he who is abandoned (7:20)

Ch. 8. Xerox and Lisa: graphical user interfaces (8:21)

Ch. 9. Going public: a man of wealth and fame (9:45)

Ch. 10. The Mac is born: you say you want a revolution (10:52)

Ch. 11. The reality distortion field: playing by his own set of rules (11:26)

Ch. 12. The design: real artists simplify (12:12)

Ch. 13. Building the Mac: the journey is the reward (13:34)

Ch. 14. Enter Sculley: the Pepsi challenge (14:32)

Ch. 15. The launch: a dent in the universe (15:47)

Ch. 16. Gates and Jobs: when orbits intersect (16:38)

Ch. 17. Icarus: what goes up (17:41)

Ch. 18. NeXT: Prometheus unbound (18:20)

Ch. 19. Pixar: technology meets art (18:52)

Ch. 20. A regular guy: love is just a four-letter word (19:36)

Ch. 21. Family man: at home with the Jobs clan (20:22)

Ch. 22. Toy story: Buzz and Woody to the rescue (21:14)

Ch. 23. The second coming: what rough beast, its hour come round at last (21:50)

Ch. 24. The restoration: the loser now will be later to win (22:37)

Ch. 25. Think different: Jobs as iCEO (23:19)

Ch. 26. Design principles: the studio of Jobs and Ive (24:05)

Ch. 27. The iMac: hello (again) (24:35)

Ch. 28. CEO: still crazy after all these years (25:10)

Ch. 29. Apple stores: genius bars and siena sandstone (25:44)

Ch. 30. The digital hub: from iTunes to the iPod (26:28)

Ch. 31. The iTunes store: I'm the Pied Piper (27:13)

Ch. 32. Music man: the sound track of his life (28:00)

Ch. 33. Pixar's friends and foes (28:44)

Ch. 34. Twenty-first-century Macs: setting Apple apart (29:21)

Ch. 35. Round one: Memento mori (30:00)

Ch. 36. The iPhone: three revolutionary products in one (30:53)

Ch. 37. Round two: the cancer recurs (31:37)

Ch. 38. The iPad: into the post-PC era (32:17)

Ch. 39. New battles: and echoes of old ones (33:09)

Ch. 40. To infinity: the cloud, the spaceship, and beyond (33:58)

Ch. 41. Round three: the twilight struggle (34:28)

Ch. 42. Legacy: the brightest heaven of invention (35:05)