Steve Jobs and His Heroes.
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On Steve Jobs
#5 Steve Jobs: The Biography
#19 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
#76 Return To The Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs and The Creation of Apple
#77 Steve Jobs & The NeXT Big Thing
#204 Inside Steve Jobs' Brain
#214 Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
#235 To Pixar And Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
Bonus Episodes on Steve Jobs
Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success (Between #112 and #113)
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs (Between #110 and #111)
On Jony Ive and Steve Jobs
#178 Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
On Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs
#34 Creativity Inc: Overcoming The Unseen Forces That Stand In The Way of True Inspiration
On Steve Jobs and several other technology company founders
#157 The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
#208 In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations With the Visionaries of the Digital World
STEVE JOBS'S INFLUENCES
Edwin Land
#40 Insisting On The Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land and Instant: The Story of Polaroid
#132 The Instant Image: Edwin Land and The Polaroid Experience
#133 Land's Polaroid: A Company and The Man Who Invented It
#134 A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
Bob Noyce and Andy Grove
#8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company
#159 Swimming Across
#166 The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
Nolan Bushnell
#36 Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent
Akio Morita
#102 Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony
Walt Disney
#2 Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
#39 Walt Disney: An American Original
#158 Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#215 The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer—The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb
Henry Ford
#9 I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
#26 My Life and Work: The Autobiography of Henry Ford
#80 Today and Tomorrow: Special Edition of Ford's 1926 Classic
#118 My Forty Years With Ford
#190 The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip
David Packard and Bill Hewlett
#29 The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
Alexander Graham Bell
#138 Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell
Robert Friedland
#131 The Big Score: Robert Friedland and The Voisey's Bay Hustle
Larry Ellison (Steve’s best friend)
#124 Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle
#126 The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the Americas Cup, Twice
#127 The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison