Steve Jobs. The Innovative Entrepreneur

Book excerpt: Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Biographies, grade: A, University of Illinois at Chicago, language: English, abstract: Steve Jobs was an influential entrepreneur, investor and innovator who is considered to have been one of the most brilliant and powerful men in the worlds of business and technology. Job’s career had more triumphs than defeats and was he stands out as one person who revolutionized numerous fields. Compared with other leading technologists and entrepreneurs, Jobs was able to achieve great success in distinctly different industries. Being a strongly opinionated perfectionist clearly driven by success in any venture he undertook, Jobs was able to transform, at global scales, a number of industries. Walter Isaacson, a notable biographer recognizes Jobs as a creative entrepreneur whose passion and ferocious drive revolutionized six key industries including; phones, digital publishing, tablet computing, animated movies and personal computers (Blumenthal, 2012). Jobs is, the ultimate icon of entrepreneurship, inventiveness and applied imagination, an individual who could best create value by integrating creativity, technology and entrepreneurship skills.