Walter Isaacson’s book on Apple’s Steve Jobs gets one feeling it’s a pity biographies begin, as they must, with the subject’s early years. After the first 200 pages, many will be tempted to throw away the tome, tiring of a brattish Jobs who typifies much of what the rest of the world dislikes about American businessmen.
Davos Stars: Michael Dell – The Strategist that Revolutionised an Industry
Dell followed the technological curve from a young age; buying his first calculator at age 7, pulling apart his first computer at fifteen, and assembling and selling upgrade kits for PCs in his spare time at University.