It might sound like the worst buddy pic ever, but the video of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs sharing the stage for an interview at D5 was pretty good. The prologue has some clips from Gates and Jobs appearing together at various things, such as the 1997 MacWorld keynote. I remembered watching Noah Wiley and Anthony Michael Hall in Pirates of Silicon Valley, and wishing I could have seen the keynote address where Bill Gates talked at the MacWorld Expo via satellite. Having never seen the actual footage from that keynote until now, watching the real thing in the prologue was uncanny, almost as if it were the remake and the movie were the real thing.
The seven part video is worth a watch if you have a geeky interest in computers like I do. If you’re only slightly interested in hearing the computer industry’s arguably most powerful geeks, check out the highlight reel. The highlight reel is a pretty good edit. You can see the discomfort the two had answering some of the questions, but you can also see that they enjoy conversing with each other about the things they are passionate about, their past business partnerships, their current business partnerships, and the future of their respective companies.
Note: This post does not contain my best writing, but it is late, and I have had several late nights this week, and I am just not writing very well right now (what a run on).
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