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Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
2012 · Film · documentary · 70 min
Directed by Paul Sen
In a television interview filmed in 1995, Steve Jobs talks frankly about his early life, competition with Microsoft and his vision for the future, while he was running NeXT, the company he founded after leaving Apple.
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Steve Jobs is an inspirational figure. The best of him is represented in the graduation speech he gave at Stanford: https://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
There are also two documentaries about him worth seeing: Steve Jobs: One Last Thing (2011)
"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview (2012)
“Expose yourself to the best things that humans have done, and then try to bring those things in to what you are doing.” — Steve Jobs
Check out "Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview" which is long form footage from the clips used in "Triumph of the Nerds" and "Revenge of the Nerds". Two fantastic documentaries that chronicle the history of personal computing.
Since I've written so much about this topic now and gotten carried away I will say that for someone new to the field of Steve Jobs Studies, the best introductory sources are the Isaacson biography and Pirates of Silicon Valley (movie) in my opinion. In fact I could order them like iTunes does for genres of music:
Essentials: Books: Steve Jobs (Isaacson), General Apple Narratives Movies: Pirates of Silicon Valley, JOBS (Kutcher movie - haven't seen)
Next Steps: Books: The Second Coming of Steve Jobs (Deutschman), From Pepsi to Apple (Sculley), iWoz (Wozniak) Movies: Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview; Famous Keynote Moments
Deep Cuts: Books: My 500 Days at Apple (Amelio), A Regular Guy (Simpson), The Bite in the Apple (Brennan) Movies: 1984 Mac Introduction, 1985 NeXT Brainstorming Documentary, NeXT Videos, Other Long Form Interviews, 1997 MacWorld Fireside Chat, More Obscure Keynotes
In the field of Steve Jobs Studies we're so lucky to have several pivotal figures write books (Simpson, Brennan, Wozniak, Sculley) but for the genre to really shine we still need a more comprehensive professional narrative. It's time someone wrote a purely business book set from 1976 through 2011 that didn't get sidetracked on outside-of-work personal issues. It would probably need to be about 1000 pages!