Pirates of Silicon Valley

The movie started with the first commercial of Apple, which introduced Macintosh in 1984. Then it showed the alliance between two big companies, namely Apple and Microsoft. The movie then turned to flashback of Steve Wozniak's youth with Steve Jobs in the year 1970's.

The first flashback took place at Berkeley in 1971 where Wozniak and Jobs were caught between a riot of students in the campus and the police. Wozniak narrated the Jobs' story. Using a similar structure, the film then showed young Bill Gates at Harvard University in the early 1970's with his classmate Steve Ballmer and his high school friend Paul Allen, like Wozniak, Ballmer narrates Gates' story. The moment Gates discovered the existence of Ed Roberts' MITS Altair, which caused Gates to drop out in school. Gates' and Allen's work was juxtaposed because of Jobs' and Wozniak's involvement with the Homebrew Computer Club, presented Jobs' first home-made computer or PC, eventually leading to the development of the Apple I in 1976. At a San Fransisco computer fair where the Apple II is introduced, Gates tried to introduce himself to Job's but snubbed him. This is then followed by Gates introducing his operating system called DOS to the IBM at Microsoft Offices Seattle in 1980 which later developed into IBM-PC with the help of Gates and Microsoft in 1981.

It also follows Jobs' relationship with his high school girlfriend (Gema Zamprogna) and the difficulties he had acknowledging the birth and existence of their daughter, Lisa. Around the time his daughter was born, Jobs unveiled his next computer, which he named, The Lisa. The Lisa was then followed in 1984 by the Macintosh, a computer inspired by the Xerox Alto. The main body of the film finally concludes with a birthday toast in 1985 to Steve Jobs shortly before he was fired by CEO John Sculley (Allan Royal) from Apple Computer.

It also includes a brief epilogue, noting what happened afterward in the lives of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The movie ends with Steve Jobs returning to Apple after its acquisition of NeXT Computer, and Bill Gates appearing live via satellite at a MacWorld Expo in 1997, during Jobs' first Stevenote keynote address, to announce an alliance between Apple and Microsoft.