Leslie Berlin is a historian who has chronicled the rise of tech culture and the history of Silicon Valley for more than two decades. She is the founding executive director of the Steve Jobs Archive and chair of the advisory group for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University. She is the editor of Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in His Own Words and author of two books: The Man Behind the Microchip, a biography of Intel co-founder Robert Noyce; and Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s Coming of Age. She also wrote the Prototype column for the Sunday Business section of the New York Times.
A curated collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews, and correspondence, Make Something Wonderful offers a window into how one of the world’s most creative entrepreneurs approached his life and work. In these pages, Steve shares his perspective on his childhood, on launching and being pushed out of Apple, on his time with Pixar and NeXT, and on his return to the company that started it all.
Featuring an introduction by Laurene Powell Jobs and edited by Leslie Berlin, this beautiful handbook is designed to inspire readers to make their own wonderful somethings that move the world forward.