Walter Isaacson have talked about Steve Jobs biography in an event in San Francisco, as well as he talked about the two years spent with Steve Jobs.
Isaacson is having plans to expand the biography by doing an "extensively annotated version" or adding an addendum addressing Steve's death period. He has added as well that this biography is not the final draft!
The one subject Jobs refused to discuss with his biographer was philanthropy, no matter how hard Isaacson pressed. Jobs even ignored a personal phone message from Bill Gates asking him to take the Giving Pledge -- a joint campaign between Gates and Warren Buffet that urges billionaires to give at least half of their money to charity. Jobs even managed to take a dig at his rival: "Bill Gates was better at philanthropy because he didn't care about making great products," Isaacson recalled Jobs saying.
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Isaacson is having plans to expand the biography by doing an "extensively annotated version" or adding an addendum addressing Steve's death period. He has added as well that this biography is not the final draft!
The one subject Jobs refused to discuss with his biographer was philanthropy, no matter how hard Isaacson pressed. Jobs even ignored a personal phone message from Bill Gates asking him to take the Giving Pledge -- a joint campaign between Gates and Warren Buffet that urges billionaires to give at least half of their money to charity. Jobs even managed to take a dig at his rival: "Bill Gates was better at philanthropy because he didn't care about making great products," Isaacson recalled Jobs saying.
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