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Steve Jobs

Becoming Steve Jobs: How a reckless upstart became a visionary leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli

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June-July 2015, no. 372
Joel Deane reviews 'Becoming Steve Jobs' by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli

I was working as a technology journalist in San Francisco when Steve Jobs made his messianic return to Apple. It was September 1997, the height of the dotcom boom. In the city, the old industrial tracts between Market Street and China Basin were being transformed by start-ups. People were living on free pizza and hoping to strike it rich with stock options in an ini ...