Although the book: "Becoming Steve Jobs: The Revolution of a Reckless Upstart Into A Visionary Leader" penned by veteran reporters Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli is still to be available for grabs (it's now up for pre-order in the US via Amazon), some rare snippets have been leaked out courtesy Cult of Mac, and let's just say, they are indeed candid.
According to Cult of Mac that got early access to the snippets through Amazon's 'Look Inside the Book' feature, the biography suggests that current Apple CEO Tim Cook had offered to donate a portion of his own liver to ailing former boss Steve Jobs when he was in need of a donor.
Apparently, Cook got so upset with Jobs' ailing condition that he himself underwent a bevy of tests to find out if he could donate a portion of his own liver to his former boss. Steve Jobs was suffering from ascites- a gastroenterological side effect of cancer. The blood tests revealed that a partial transplant of Cook's liver was possible.
However, even before Cook became aware of it, he was "cut off at the legs, almost before the words were out of his mouth" when he visited Jobs. Jobs did not allow for this to happen.
According to the leaked snippets, Jobs' reaction was instant, "he kind of popped up in bed and said that", says Cook "during a time when things were just terrible." Cook goes on to add, this was only among the four or five times during the whole 13 years he had known him that Jobs had 'yelled' at him.
On an ambitious note, Apple was all out at competing with Mountain View Company Google at some point of time, when it was planning to buy Yahoo! According to the snippets, Steve Jobs and Disney boss Bob Iger were in talks to acquire Yahoo! At some point, however, that did not materialize into something concrete.
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Revolution of a Reckless Upstart Into A Visionary Leader is notably the second biography about Jobs that takes some serious digs at the 2011 book by Walter Isaacsons. The new book goes on to reportedly quote that Apple's design chief, Jony Ive believed that "Steve Jobs" had some 'tremendous disservice' to the former Apple CEO.
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