“Many people know Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as an exacting tech visionary. Fewer know him as a romantic, a poet or a costumed ‘Alice in Wonderland’ character at a California shopping mall,” Rachel Metz reports for The Associated Press.
“These latter characteristics help make up the portrait of Jobs painted by his first serious girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan, in a ‘Rolling Stone’ story that was shared exclusively with The Associated Press before hitting newsstands Friday,” Metz reports.
“Brennan and Jobs met in 1972, when he was a senior and she was a junior at Cupertino’s Homestead High School,” Metz reports. “In the piece, she recounts her adventures with a 17-year-old Jobs that summer, from moving into a cabin together to getting paid to portray ‘Alice’ characters at a local mall.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
What?!? Noone saw Pirates of Silicon Valley?
As far as I understood there are too much inaccuracy in this film and just a little less in the book on which it was based, so I personally never cared.
More accurate biography is welcome.
As I said earlier, the media replay and retell the same old stories for decades. Some even made a career on that.
Since early Apple and Next days, Jobs became less much despotic — many people manage to work with him for the last 10-20 years since they understand that Jobs’ abrasiveness is actually nothing personal and that he actually respects his co-workers very much.
I just read some of the Rolling Stone articles and the 1994 and 2003 interviews are very good. I highly recommend the 1994 interview.