technological tidal wave. so you ve just bought your first personal computer, you brought it home from the store, you re unpacking it, and then comes the moment of truth. if you ve just got your first personal computer, this show is for you. computers were, in 1990, a disconnected device. it was a brick, right, inside your house, that let you do amazing things that you d never been able to do before, but it was, essentially, a productivity tool. now that we have all these very powerful tools, we are still islands, and we are still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. apple was in a period of decline. steve jobs quit in kind of a temper tantrum in 1985, and he went off and started a company called next. after he left, there was a sequence of pretty boring, unimaginative corporate leadership that followed him. so why did you leave apple? well, why did i leave apple? well, i was asked to leave. yeah, i was asked to leave apple
so you ve just bought your first personal computer, you ve brought it home from the store, you re unpacking it, and then comes the moment of truth. if you ve just bought your first personal computer, this show is for you. computers were in 1990 a disconnected device. it was a brick, right? that sat in your house and let you do amazing things that you d never been able to do before, but it was essentially a productivity tool. now that we have all these very powerful tools, we re still islands, and we re still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. apple was in a period of decline. steve jobs quit in kind of a temper tantrum in 1985. and he went off and started a company called next. after he left, there was a sequence of pretty boring, unimaginative corporate leadership that followed him. so why did you leave apple? well, why did i leave apple? i was asked to leave. yeah, i was asked to leave apple. i was planning on spe
it wasn t a search-based system. the idea was to curate the whole web. wall street now values yahoo! at around $700 million even though the company is barely profitable. with the success of netscape and the growth of these digital upstarts, yahoo!, there was this energy that was not all in seattle. it s not really silicon valley versus what s going on in redmond, washington. it s more mankind versus microsoft. so silicon valley is just one outpost against the evil empire to the north. this is silicon valley, the heart and soul of the nation s computer business. here microsoft is respected and feared as a powerful giant whose every footstep sends shivers through the entire industry. there s this emerging war basically between the silicon valley culture built up around the web and the microsoft culture up in redmond. it s not just a cultural clash but an economic clash,
organizing the internet. it quickly became the leading way to find things, and it was a directory-based system. it wasn t a search-based system. the idea was to curate the whole blood. wall street now values yahoo at around 700 million dollars, even though the company is barely profitable. with the success of netscape and the growth of the digital upstarts, yahoo. there was this energy that was not. it s not really silicon valley versus what s going up in washington. it s more mankind versus microsoft. so silicon valley is just one outpost against the evil empire to the north. this is silicon valley, the heart and soul of the nation s computer business. here, microsoft is respected and feared as a powerful giant whose every footstep sends shivers through the entire industry. there s this emerging war, basically, between the silicon valley culture buildup around the web and the microsoft