Pirates of the Silicon Valley Reflection

Pirates of the Silicon Valley Reflection

1. What are the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs as a founder of Apple Inc.?

Steve Jobs is a great speaker and sales-talker in a young age. He convinced tons of investors by feeding them information of a new technology. He was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he is widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution. As the new CEO of the company, Jobs oversaw the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and on the services side, the company's Apple Retail Stores, iTunes Store and the App Store. Steve Jobs' Downfall was also the downfall of apple. Eleven long years after the mercurial young Apple co-founder was unceremoniously ousted by CEO John Sculley, Jobs is returning to the company he so loved clothed in glory. If Jobs' career were a quilt, it would be a patchwork of ermine and calico. The self-possessed, and some say obsessed, Jobs does nothing in half measures and so seems to reap his rewards in abject failure and stunning successes. Today brought him the latter. "I still have very deep feelings for Apple," Jobs said in a statement tonight, "and it gives me great joy to play a role in architecting Apple's future." 

2. How do you see yourself as a founder of a computer or software company?

If so, then I might see myself as a successful businessman. To do so, I should be a great marketer and an entrepreneur. If I am to see myself as a founder of a software company, that company could be greater than some companies that are existing today. I envisioned my company to be placed on a near-shore so I can relax anytime. Having a company full of happy employees is one of my ideal companies that I hope I will accomplish. A software company that I found must be good-for-everyone or user-friendly computer software that makes life easier than what we have now. Almost all companies rely heavily on their computer systems to keep track of data, day-to-day tasks and money. Even small businesses have moved away from pen and paper tracking, leaving ledger books to accumulate dust in storage bays. Years of data used to take up huge amounts of space with filing cabinets and boxes of records and paper in a storage closet, rarely accessed.

3. Whom do you think is an effective founder/head of the company? Bill Gates or Steve Jobs?

Bill Gates, for Bill Gates is wiser, good at maintaining his employees by not stressing them, and also an Inventor. Steve Jobs was clearly stressing his employees by watching their mistakes instead of their new creations which lead to his downfall. Bill Gates is far better than Steve Jobs at inventing new things or improvising things. Steve Jobs was relying on Steve Wozniak's ideas about computers. While Bill Gates is making things based on his own ideas and improved it with Steve Wozniak's ideal computers which is the Macintosh. Bill Gates' vision on the future were brighter than Steve Jobs'. Steve Jobs is not really a born leader for what has happened explained everything.

4.Would you take the same career path as Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?

No, Steve Jobs has a great speaking skills and charisma. Yet he wasted everything he invested with his unbearable attitude of finding people. He's a Perfectionist. I'd rather take Bill Gates' path, for his cleverness made him the richest person today. He maybe copied some of Apple's Ideas, yet he is still acknowledge by people who see his real genius doings. His ideas or products are definitely user-friendly. He envisioned the future of what does it need to make things easier. Bill Gates is a good role model for everyone who pursue their dreams that thinks they are bound to fail. Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Gates has been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by judicial courts. 

5. What is your over all reflection/reaction about the movie?

The movie The Pirates of Silicon Valley is simply a great movie. But at first I  thought the movie is all about how Apple and Microsoft born and rise. Most of the movie is all about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates steal ideas from Apple Inc. And then after I finished watching the movie, I then realized why it is titled "The Pirates of Silicon Valley". But I don't think Bill Gates actually stole the Operating System. He only stole the idea on how it works. But the story of the movie is all about how the two of the biggest computer company in the world compete. As I react on the movie, this is what came into my mind and what I conclude. That it is not enough to be a genius on your field. You should make a bad thing to achieve success. As the two gentlemen act after they become the man of their own company, issues came up and a lot of things happened between them. But the principal of all they have right now is their diligence in their work. They will not achieve what they have right now without working it hard.