Pirates of Silicon Valley

Pirates of Silicon Valley is a 110-minutes drama film directed and written by Martyn Burke, starring Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs, Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates, Joey Slotnick as Steve Wozniak, John DiMaggio as Steve Ballmer, and Josh Hopkins as Paul Allen. The film was originally released on June 20, 1999 and it explores the impact of the rivalry between the two founders of Apple Computer and Microsoft on the development of personal computers.

The film started with the flashback story of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the University of Berkeley during the period of the Opposition of students to the US Government for their involvement in the Vietnam War. Wozniak then commented, as he was one of the narrators of the film, that "Steve Jobs was never like you or me. He always saw things differently." This just implies that Steve Jobs is not contented with what is known and obvious but also keen on making the impossible to possible. The film then turns to the flashback story of Bill Gates when he was still a student at Harvard University together with Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft from 2000-2014 and now the owner of NBA Team Los Angeles Clippers) and high school friend Paul Allen who is co-founder of Microsoft alongside Bill Gates.

In summary, the film tells us the journey and struggles of two persons who contributed a lot to the revolution of computers. From a computer that is as big of three rooms and need a lot of people to operate to computer that is handy and can be carried anywhere you want. The films also tells us the different personality of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs in terms of business tactics and strategies. Steve Jobs is best known for his passion for perfection and demanded everyone to do the same, while Bill Gates have been considered anti-competitive. In sociological or psychological perspective, Steve Jobs is more of a Instrumental Leader who focuses on the completion of the tasks, whereas Bill Gates is a Expressive Leader who focuses on the well-being of others (Sociology, John Macionis). Though Bill Gates has been criticized for his tactics for years, you can say that his strategy could be considered as the best. He's not the World's Wealthiest People since 1995 for nothing.




References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen