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Jobs's genius and cruelty were the same intensity
Visionary control built unmatched products and casually broke people, and the cost stays unresolved.
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About Walter Isaacson
Walter Seff Isaacson is an American journalist who has written biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Jennifer Doudna, and Elon Musk. As of 2024, Isaacson is a professor at Tulane University and, since 2018, an interviewer for the PBS and CNN news show Amanpour & Company.
Everything about Walter Isaacson →- Occupation
- journalist, writer, biographer, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 20, 1952