Pirates of Silicon Valley

In line with recent news about Apple founder Steve Jobs, we have reviewed the 1999 movie Pirates of Silicon Valley. The movie is about how Steve Jobs of Apple and Bill Gates of Microsoft started.

This is a must movie for people wanting to know the story behind the successes of the two brand giants and how it changed how we all lived today.

Pirates of Silicon Valley is both rich in history and also in values, especially entrepreneurial values. Personally, I learned a lot from the movie. Though for others, this movie might be a little boring for the taste, if one has to look on how the movie was produced and filmed.

The movie has important virtue on:

Marketing

BILL GATES:
You know how you survive?
You make people need you. You survive because you make them need what you have.
And then they have no where else to go.

Negotiation

Sometimes you deal… Sometimes you fold

Ideation

Good artist copy, great artist steal

It’s just ironic though, that these two big companies hate piracy, and yet, in the movie it depicted how the two giants benefited from “pirating” ideas from others. Thus, the movie,  “PIRATES” I guess .

BoyThing Rating: 7.5/10