Pirates of Silicon Valley
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It's like Picasso said:
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Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
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This is who we wanted
to steal from. Xerox.

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They were secretly developing
all this amazing stuff...

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... like the mouse and the graphics on the
screen instead of just a bunch of numbers.

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But when those California engineers
had to go to New York...

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... and present all this neat stuff
to the Xerox brass...

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... those executives didn't begin
to understand what they were looking at.

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Never mind a mouse. It was like someone
dumped a dead rat on the boardroom table.

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A mouse.
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You want Xerox to consider
something called a mouse?

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See, this is where Steve was a genius...
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... because he persuaded Xerox
into showing us all this incredible stuff...

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... their California guys had developed.
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I tell you, it was making their people
absolutely nuts.

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Oh, God.
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Let's go.
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You know, I felt like
one of the Mongol hordes...

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... coming to loot and plunder
a bunch of defenseless villagers.

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No, no. This is insane.
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We'd just be handing him everything.
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We created the mouse and all the rest of it,
and now these idiots in New York...

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...want to show it all to Steve Jobs.
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I won't do it.
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Hi. I'm Steve Jobs.
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I need you to answer some other questions
about the stuff you've invented.

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The graphic interface?
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It's not going to hurt.
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That's what you think.

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