Copyright © 2015 by Ostuma Partners, Inc., and Rick Tetzeli
Foreword copyright © 2016 by Marc Andreessen
Preface copyright © 2016 by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
All rights reserved.
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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Crown Business, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2015.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Schlender, Brent.
Becoming Steve Jobs: the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader / Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli.
pages cm
1. Jobs, Steve, 1955–2011. 2. Computer engineers—United States—Biography. 3. Businesspeople—United States—Biography. 4. Apple Computer, Inc.—Management. 5. Leadership. I. Tetzeli, Rick. II. Title.
QA76.2.J63S35 2015
338.7’6100416092—dc23
[B] 2014031660
ISBN 978-0-385-34742-6
Ebook ISBN 978-0-385-34741-9
Cover design by Michael Nagin
Cover photograph by Doug Menuez/Contour by Getty from
Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985–2000
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