by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
Schlender drew on twenty-five years of direct interviews and personal friendship with Jobs to chart his maturation from the ejected Apple founder into the disciplined leader of Pixar and returned Apple. Schlender and Tetzeli argue that the wilderness years at NeXT and Pixar, more than his original Apple run, forged the Jobs who built the iPhone era.
In this collection, Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader references 3 other books and is cited by 1 other book.
It draws on Steve Jobs, Creativity, Inc. and The Innovators.
It’s picked up by Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom).
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Schlender explicitly positions his book as a corrective to Isaacson's Steve Jobs, arguing Isaacson underweighted Jobs's growth and maturation
Schlender draws heavily on Catmull's Creativity Inc. account of Jobs at Pixar, where Catmull worked alongside him for two decades
Schlender's chapters on Jobs's NeXT and Pixar years complement the collaborative-team thesis Isaacson developed in The Innovators
The exact passages where other authors bring up “Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader” and what they take from it.
Covers the same 1997 Jobs-returns-to-Apple pivot that Schlender and Tetzeli reconstruct in Becoming Steve Jobs, but through the voices of NeXT, Pixar, and Apple insiders who witnessed it
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Adam Fisher
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