Movie Review: Pirates of Silicon Valley
- Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs
- Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates
- Joey Slotnick as Steve Wozniak
- Jeffrey Nordling as Mike Markkula
- Allan Royal as John Sculley
- Marcus Giamatti as Daniel Kottke
- John DiMaggio as Steve Ballmer
- Josh Hopkins as Paul Allen
Steve Jobs is great nor even good at computers and technology , he is not even an innovator - he is a business man.
Gates on Jobs: "He really never knew much about technology, but he had an amazing instinct for that works""
After watch the Pirates of the Silicon Valley, I realize that Steve Jobs is just a perfectionist, sophisticated and terror CEO, chairman, co-founder of Apple Inc. Based on what I have watched (Pirates of the Silicon Valley) and read articles about Steve Jobs, for me he is a demanding boss that will not be easily satisfied with simple and common ideas. He did not even designed any Apple computer or Macintosh OS, it was Jonathan Ive, the Senior Vice President of Design of Apple Inc.
But even though Jobs did not have these talents like Bill Gates who designed and programmed Microsoft, Steve Wozniak who is the inventor and programmer and also the co-founder of Steve Jobs of Apple Inc, and Jonathan Ive, who is a well known designer of apple computer and software, he used his high standard, criticizing and shouting out at his employees to create a device that could satisfy the clients need and feed the customers wants and standard to assure the success of their products as well as their company. Steve Jobs’ attitude is one of the the greatest contribution to his success as a technopreneur, his sophisticated attitude towards his business.
Anyone who doesn’t know him well might be fooled or I should said might think that he is the designer of the apple devices or might be the (just like Bill Gates) chief software architect of Apple Inc. and Jonathan Ive, who is a well known designer of apple computer and software, he used his high standard, criticizing and shouting out at his employees to create a device that could satisfy the clients need and feed the customers’ wants and standard to assure the success of their products as well as their company. Steve Jobs’ attitude is one of the the greatest contribution to his success as a technopreneur, his sophisticated attitude towards his business.
Anyone who doesn’t know him well might be fooled or I should said might think that he is the designer of the apple devices or might be the (just like Bill Gates) chief software architect of Apple Inc. and Jonathan Ive, who is a well known designer of apple computer and software, he used his high standard, criticizing and shouting out at his employees to create a device that could satisfy the clients need and feed the customers’ wants and standard to assure the success of their products as well as their company. Steve Jobs’ attitude is one of the the greatest contribution to his success as a technopreneur, his sophisticated attitude towards his business.
Anyone who doesn’t know him well might be fooled or (I should say) might think that he is the designer of the apple devices or might be the (just like Bill Gates) chief software architect of Apple Inc or the brain of his company, but he is not. He is just a pure businessman. He is actually one of the best businessman or business tycoon in he history. Considering he was able to create a company that is not in his field. He is able to build his company by just creating and demanding his high standard for his products.
Success Factors
- Focus - Steve Jobs take his job as the top or the most important thing in his life. He can exchange his life for his work. His work is his passion, and he is very focus on his passion. On the film Pirates of Silicon Valley, I have remember a scenario from the movie that he is very serious and focus on his job as a CEO of Apple computers that he can even let his girlfriend or partner leave him because of his job as a priority of his life. And he also refuse to be a father to his daughter Lisa. He leave his partner Arlene during her pregnancy and refuse to accept that he is the father of Arlene’s daughter. He said that he cannot accept the baby because she cannot prove that he really is the father, but whose daughter could it be?
- Idealistic - As I have already mention above Steve Jobs will not be contented of simple and common idea of his employees, he is an idealistic man. He wanted to create or develop a device or program that the people dream of. Apple initiated the rise of technology industry. The credits would be all given to Steve Jobs for this attitude.
- His Employees - Steve Jobs vision is to create a product that can satisfy the need of everyone in a single device, that is his famous product the iPhone. Though it is very difficult to have it all in just a phone or a device, he made sure that the person would be satisfy and would eventually make a testimonial of how good is his product is. His standards were based of what he envision in the future.
- Being the Best - Steve will not accept an ordinary people, he actually wants to get the best, and be the best against anyone. I remember from the scenario in the movie that he is making sure that his best and good employees will not shift or transfer from his company to another person’s company, because he already know that he already hired the best, and he must keep his assets (his employees) to be acquired by someone that have the capacity to best him or to dethrone him from the paramount of IT industry. But was fooled or beguile by Bill Gates. How did Bill Gates beguile Steve Jobs? Bill Gates offered Steve Jobs to work in his company or to have a partnership with his company, and that lead Bill Gates developing Windows from Apple’s developed ideas. Steve Jobs was enticed to hire or to have partnership with Bill Gates because Steve Jobs knows that Bill Gates is a prospect employee for his company, he knows that Bill Gates is one of the best, and Steve Jobs want to have the best people in his company.
- Extraordinary - Steve Jobs is an extraordinary technopreneur, or for the businessman an extraordinary entrepreneur. One of the greatest CEO of the world. He may not have a extraordinary mind but he have his employees with their extraordinary mind and extraordinary talent.
Failure Factor
Steve Jobs success factors can also be his failure factors. Because of these success factors Steve Jobs became great and well known to the business and IT industry. But these success factors of his made him also a failure in life. Steve Jobs was rejected and kick out by the company that he founded. Steve Wozniak his best friend and co-founder and Arlene his partner also left him because of his love and his focus on his work.
From Harvard Business Reviews by Peter Sims
Five of Steve Jobs's Biggest Mistakes
It's a great disservice to everyone, especially young people, that the stories that we often hear about the most accomplished entrepreneurs sound so effortless. The truth is just the opposite, even for visionary creative success stories like those of Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Howard Schultz, Wendy Kopp, and even the legendary Steve Jobs. Like any creative process, any entrepreneur who wants to invent, innovate, or create must be willing to be imperfect and make mistakes in order to learn what works and what does not.
It took Dorsey years of experimentation before he finally latched onto what ultimately became Twitter. Wendy Kopp started Teach for America, initially as a conference, on a shoestring budget after graduating from college. And Howard Schultz, while he had great foresight to recognize that Americans needed a communal coffee experience like those that existed in Europe, failed on his first try. As I wrote in Little Bets, when his first store opened in Seattle in 1986, there was non-stop opera music, menus in Italian, and no chairs. As Schultz acknowledges, he and his colleagues had to make "a lot of mistakes" to discover what would become the Starbucks we know today.
Despite what we may have read, Steve Jobs was no different. Here are five of Jobs's greatest
mistakes, all of which history shows he ultimately learned from:
mistakes, all of which history shows he ultimately learned from:
1. Recruiting John Sculley as CEO of Apple. Feeling that he needed an experienced operating and marketing partner, the then 29-year-old Jobs lured Sculley to Apple with the now legendary pitch: "Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?" Sculley took the bait and within two years, Sculley had organized a board campaign to fire Jobs. Jobs himself would surely consider hiring Sculley as a great mistake.
2. Believing that Pixar would be a great hardware company. When Jobs was the last and only buyer standing in 1986 when George Lucas had to sell off the Pixar graphics arm of LucasFilms (for $10 million), he never expected the company to ever make money on animated films. Instead, as Pixar historian David Price shows in his excellent book The Pixar Touch, Jobs believed that Pixar was going to be the next great hardware company. Not even a visionary like Steve Jobs could predict what unfolded at Pixar, yet to his great credit, he supported cofounders Ed Catmull and John Lasseter as they pursued their dream of producing a full-length digitally animated film from day one. He protected their ability to make small bets on short films in order to learn how to eventually make a full-length feature film in Toy Story.
3. Not knowing the right market for NeXT computer. Although Jobs tried to spin NeXT computer as an ultimate success when the assets were sold to Apple in 1996 for $429 million, few in Silicon Valley agreed. The company struggled from the start to find the right markets and customers. If you haven't seen the video about Jobs describing the vision for NeXT's customers, you should watch it on YouTube. It's clear that even Jobs was confused. In it he says, "We've had, historically, a very hard time figuring out exactly who our customer was, and I'd like to show you why."
4. Launching numerous product failures. The Apple Lisa. Macintosh TV. The Apple III. The Powermac g4 cube. Steve Jobs was brilliant about understanding how technology vectors were evolving, yet even he screwed up royally, and often. The lesson that I take from these defunct products is that people will soon forget that you were wrong on a lot of smaller bets, so long as you nail big bets in a major way (in Jobs's case, the iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc). Jobs was a market research group of one at Apple, which carries with it great risk, yet it should be noted that his batting average improved over time, which comes as no surprise to those who study the benefits of developing strong creative muscles though deliberate practice.
5. Trying to sell Pixar numerous times. By the late 1980s, after owning Pixar for four or five years, Jobs tried on multiple occasions to sell the company, just to break even on his investment, which ultimately equaled roughly $50 million. He shopped Pixar to, among others, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and numerous strategic partners and companies. No potential buyer bit. It's a good thing for Jobs, and his legacy. He eventually engineered the sale of Pixar to Disney for $7.4 billion in 2006.
The lesson, it seems, is fairly simple: Even the great business visionaries and luminaries of our times often fail and have setbacks. Imperfection is a part of any creative process and of life, yet for some reason we live in a culture that has a paralyzing fear of failure, which prevents action and hardens a rigid perfectionism. It's the single most dis-empowering state of mind you can have if you'd like to be more creative, inventive, or entrepreneurial. The antidote is to try a small experiment, one where any potential loss is knowable and affordable.
The revolution will be improvised.
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