![]() Gates created Microsoft and licensed an operating for IBM which would become MS-DOS, bought from a small fledging software company in Seattle for $50,000, although Wikipedia’s article on the subject states it was $75,000. ![]() Jobs and Woz founded Apple and created the first personal computer, the Apple I and Apple II. These crazy young inexperienced radicals who began their careers in garages and motels would mold what would become the entire PC market. The Pirates of Silicon Valley chronicles the escapades and misadventures of the young upstarts who created the industry that the old guard couldn’t really see yet alone understand.Īn industry which now permeates all aspects of modern life. Gates had Paul Allen who knew something about computers. Jobs had Steve Wozniack, essentially a techie tinkerer who could invent small gizmos which could defraud the phone company. Pirates of Silicon Valley Review: In Pirates of Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs was a college radical, and Bill Gates was a Harvard bum who missed class to play poker.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |