Apple vs Microsoft | Hackers and Capitalists | 2
Business Wars
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4.6 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This episode, we dive into the backstories of the inventors behind the home computer revolution. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs begin with mutual respect and see themselves reflected in each other. But soon their ambition and business choices rip them apart.
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| 0:19.0 | 1971 University of California, Berkeley. |
| 0:23.0 | It's past midnight and a teenage Steve Jobs and 21-year-old Steve Wozniak are driving |
| 0:29.0 | back from the Berkeley campus to Jobs' home in nearby Los Altos. |
| 0:33.0 | And they have something very valuable in the back of the car. |
| 0:38.0 | What the? |
| 0:41.0 | The car sputters to a stop. |
| 0:44.0 | Wozniak, known to everyone as Woz, looks at Jobs who's banging the steering wheel in frustration. |
| 0:50.0 | Damn it! Why now? |
| 0:55.0 | He tries restarting the car. It's totally dead. |
| 1:00.0 | Steve, come on, man, chill. There's a gas station up the road. |
| 1:04.0 | Alright, let me grab the blue box. |
| 1:09.0 | The blue box is set to become Wozniak and Jobs' first product. |
| 1:14.0 | The two long-haired buddies have been tinkering since high school |
| 1:18.0 | and they finally developed something that they think will be a sensation. |
| 1:23.0 | It looks sort of like a hand calculator connected to a mouthpiece. |
| 1:27.0 | It's a device that makes it possible to make long-distance telephone calls for free. |
| 1:33.0 | Phone companies charge $3 a minute. |
| 1:36.0 | The only problem with the blue box is that it's not exactly legal. |
| 1:46.0 | Jobs and Woz make it to the gas station and Woz spots a phone booth. |
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