Pirates of Silicon Valley: A Review

Pirates of Silicon Valley is a 1999 film directed by Martyn Burke. It was based on Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine’s book: ”Fire in the Valley: The Making of Personal Computer”. It was about the competition between Steve Jobs, the creator of Apple and Bill Gates, the creator of Microsoft. Steve Jobs was portrayed by Noah Wyle and Bill Gates with Anthony Michael Hall.

The film showed the two characters roles in real life and how they faced struggles in their personal lives and the problems they had in their own companies.

 Steve Jobs started making computers with his partner, Steve Wozniak in a very small garage. While Bill Gates started making computer softwares  in a motel warehouse.

Steve Jobs has an excellent performance in Marketing. But when it comes to treating his employees, he treated them poorly. Bill Gates is more relaxed and easygoing when he treats his company workers.

As we could see from the movie, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates worked really hard for their companies to be successful. They marked their names on history out of blood and sweat.

Apple is more on creating computers (and now including smartphones and other gadgets) while Microsoft is more on creating softwares that we have and use on our computers.

A part in the movie tells us that Bill Gates stole Jobs’ computer ideas, making it a new design and selling it as his own. Because Gates stole his information, he became very successful and eventually became one of the richest man in the world.

Because what has happened, the two companies became two huge rivalries and until now have not gained each other’s trust.

To be honest, If I were given the chance to rate, I would give this one a four out of five. I am not into computers the reason it is not that interesting to me. But in the bright side, the movie is very informative and I really appreciate both of them for making our lives better today.