VentureBeat's What to Think Podcast

VentureBeat's What to Think Podcast


Episode 49: Rick Tetzeli and 'Becoming Steve Jobs'

April 09, 2015

The accepted narrative about Steve Jobs has been that he was half genius and half jerk, but that isn’t the whole truth. So say authors Rick Tetzeli and Brent Schlender in the new biography “Becoming Steve Jobs.” Jobs’ character is more multidimensional than that, and over the course of his life he proved he was capable of change. Tetzeli’s and Schlender’s book presents Jobs in a very different light than did the “authorized” biography of Jobs written by Walter Isaacson.
Plus: We tell you what to think about Jay-Z’s new music site Tidal, Bill Gates’s 40th anniversary letter to Microsoft employees, and the HBO Now service on Apple TV.