Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy (2011)
2011, Film, 50 min, Biography, Documentary, English, United Kingdom, MoviePedia score 64
Evan Davis decodes the formula that took Apple from suburban Californian garage to global supremacy, telling the story of Steve Jobs's rise, fall and triumphant rise again.
Broadly considered a brand that inspires fervour and defines cool consumerism, Apple has become one of the biggest corporations in the world, fuelled by game-changing products that tap into modern desires. Its leader, Steve Jobs, was a long-haired college dropout with infinite ambition, and an inspirational perfectionist with a bully's temper. A man of contradictions, he fused a Californian counterculture attitude and a mastery of the art of hype with explosive advances in computer technology. Insiders including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the chairman who ousted Jobs from the company he founded, and Jobs' chief of software, tell extraordinary stories of the rise, fall and rise again of Apple with Steve Jobs at its helm. With Stephen Fry, world wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and branding guru Rita Clifton, Evan Davis decodes the formula that took Apple from suburban garage to global supremacy.
Directed by Laura Craig Gray, Tristan Quinn
Cast
- Evan Davis as Narrator
- Daniel Kottke as Self - Steve Jobs' friend
- Stewart Brand as Self - publisher Whole Earth Catalog
- Steve Wozniak as Self - co-founder Apple Inc.
- Robert X. Cringely as Self - former employee Apple Inc.
- Steven Levy as Self - senior writer Wired
- John Sculley as Self - former executive Apple Inc.
- Andy Hertzfeld as Self - former Apple's software developer
- Larry Tesler as Self - former researcher Xerox PARC
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