Showing posts with label 60 Minutes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 60 Minutes. Show all posts

April 05, 2021

From the 60 Minutes Archive: Steve Jobs

On the 45th anniversary of the founding of Apple, a look back at the 2011 profile of Steve Jobs, which aired just weeks after his death.

February 18, 2019

60 Minutes Australia: Work Till You Drop (2017)


While he doesn’t look it or feel it, Charles Wooley is nudging 70. It’s led him to some serious introspection about his existence, and even more sombrely, contemplation of the “R” word. No, he still loves reporting for 60 MINUTES, but shouldn’t he have retired at 65? Shouldn’t his constant companion these days be a fishing rod instead of a typewriter? But as Wooley discovers, retirement is a word most Australians can no longer afford to dream about. The more likely reality, as former federal treasurer Peter Costello – who is now Wooley’s boss at Channel Nine – has been warning us about for more than two decades, is that we’ll have to work until we drop. Reporter: Charles Wooley Producer: Jo Townsend

October 16, 2018

Paul Allen on Gates, Microsoft


Lesley Stahl speaks to Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen in his first interview about his upcoming book in which he criticizes his Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates.

February 10, 2018

February 06, 2012

Steve Jobs' Advice to President Obama

Steve Jobs met with President Obama a few times and gave him ideas for how to generate jobs in the U.S., according to his biographer, Walter Isaacson. Jobs also told Isaacson that Obama needed a management style more like his own, which could be both mean and manipulative.

Steve Jobs the Boss: Defiance Has Its Rewards

Steve Jobs is infamous for being an abrasive and often abusive boss - determined to get his way. But for those at Apple who stood up to him, there could be a humorous payoff, his biographer Walter Isaacson tells Steve Kroft. Also: Jobs on driving.

Steve Jobs’ Secret Liver Transplant

In early 2009, Steve Jobs was "wasting away" in desperate need of a liver transplant, his biographer Walter Isaacson tells Steve Kroft. Jobs finally had the surgery in Memphis, and it was done in great secrecy - much like the development of a new Apple product.

60 Minutes: Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was already gravely ill with cancer when he asked author Walter Isaacson to write his biography. Jobs told Isaacson to write a honest book - about his failings and his strengths. Steve Kroft reports.