About the Book
Inventor. Visionary. Genius. Dropout. Adopted. Steve Jobs was the founder of Apple and he
was all of these things.
Steve Jobs has been described as a showman, artist, tyrant, genius, jerk. Through his life he was loved, hated,
admired and dismissed, yet he was a living legend; the genius who founded Apple in his parent’s garage when
he was just 20 years old, revolutionising the music world. He single-handedly introduced the first computer
that could sit on your desk and founded and nurtured a company called Pixar bringing to life Oscar wining
animations Toy Story and Finding Nemo.
So how did the man, who was neither engineer nor computer geek change the world we live in, making us
want every product he touched?
On graduation day in 2005, a fifty-year-old Steve Jobs said: ‘Today I want to tell you three stories from my life,
That’s it. Just three stories’. The first story is about connecting the dots. My second story is about love and loss.
My third story is about death.
This is his story...
Critically acclaimed author Karen Blumenthal takes us to the core of this complicated and
legendary man, from his adoption and early years through to the pinnacles of his career, his
dismissal from his duties at Apple (for being too disruptive and difficult) to the graduation where
he gave the commencement speech just 6 years before his death, giving life to what were soon to
become some of most famous quotes of his career, ending with the message: “Stay Hungry. Stay
Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish
that for you.”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”