Steve Jobs and His Heroes
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The Value of Biographies in Entrepreneurial Learning
This chapter highlights the importance of reading biographies to gain insights from historical innovators in business and technology. It recommends specific readings about Steve Jobs and Apple to enhance understanding of modern entrepreneurship.
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On Steve Jobs
#5 Steve Jobs: The Biography
#19 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
#76 Return To The Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs and The Creation of Apple
#77 Steve Jobs & The NeXT Big Thing
#204 Inside Steve Jobs' Brain
#214 Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
#235 To Pixar And Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
Bonus Episodes on Steve Jobs
Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success (Between #112 and #113)
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs (Between #110 and #111)
On Jony Ive and Steve Jobs
#178 Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
On Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs
#34 Creativity Inc: Overcoming The Unseen Forces That Stand In The Way of True Inspiration
On Steve Jobs and several other technology company founders
#157 The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
#208 In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations With the Visionaries of the Digital World
STEVE JOBS'S INFLUENCES
Edwin Land
#40 Insisting On The Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land and Instant: The Story of Polaroid
#132 The Instant Image: Edwin Land and The Polaroid Experience
#133 Land's Polaroid: A Company and The Man Who Invented It
#134 A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
Bob Noyce and Andy Grove
#8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company
#159 Swimming Across
#166 The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
Nolan Bushnell
#36 Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent
Akio Morita
#102 Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony
Walt Disney
#2 Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
#39 Walt Disney: An American Original
#158 Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#215 The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer—The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb
Henry Ford
#9 I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
#26 My Life and Work: The Autobiography of Henry Ford
#80 Today and Tomorrow: Special Edition of Ford's 1926 Classic
#118 My Forty Years With Ford
#190 The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip
David Packard and Bill Hewlett
#29 The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
Alexander Graham Bell
#138 Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell
Robert Friedland
#131 The Big Score: Robert Friedland and The Voisey's Bay Hustle
Larry Ellison (Steve’s best friend)
#124 Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle
#126 The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the Americas Cup, Twice
#127 The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison
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