ICon Steve Jobs

This book chronicles the roller-coaster ride of Steve Jobs from the despair of repeated failures to the triumph of iPod and Toy Story and his monumental clash with Disney. Lightning never strikes twice, but Steve Jobs has, transforming modern culture first with the Macintosh and more recently with the iPod. He has dazzled and delighted audiences with his Pixar movies. And he has bedeviled, destroyed, and demoralized hundreds of people along the way. Steve Jobs is the most interesting character of the digital age.What a long, strange journey it has been. With the mainstream success of the iPod, Pixar's string of hits and subsequent divorce from Disney, and Steve's triumphant return to Apple, his story is better than any fiction. Ten years after the leading maverick of the computer age, the king of digital cool, crashed from the height of Apple's meteoric rise, Steve Jobs rose from ashes in a Machiavellian coup that only he could have orchestrated, and has now become more famous than ever.In this encore to his classic 1987 unauthorized biography of Steve Jobs-a major bestseller that sold 250,000 copies-Jeffrey Young examines Jobs's remarkable resurgence, one of the most amazing business comeback stories in recent years. Drawing on a wide range of sources in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, he details how Jobs put Apple back on track, first with the iMac and then with the iPod, and traces Jobs's role in the remarkable rise of the Pixar animation studio, including his rancorous feud with Disney's Michael Eisner.

Prologue.

PART ONE. FLOWERING AND WITHERING .

1. Roots.

2. A Company Is Born.

3. Let's Be Pirates!

4. Learning to Fail.

PART TWO. NEW BEGINNINGS.

5. The NeXT Step.

6. Show Business.

7. Master of Ceremonies.

8. Icon.

PART THREE. DEFINING THE FUTURE.

9. Mogul.

10. Breaking New Ground.

11. iPod, iTunes, Therefore I Am.

12. Clash of the Titans.

13. Showtime.

Epilogue.

Acknowledgments.

Notes.

Index.