Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview (2012) on Netflix
NR20121h 10mDocumentary
Steve Jobs gave a television interview in 1995, a decade after his ouster from Apple. Then head of NeXT, he speaks about his early life, Microsoft and where computing might be headed.
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This 2012 documentary is built around a 1995 television conversation with Steve Jobs, recorded for the documentary Triumph of the Nerds. Only a small share of the footage was used in that program. Jobs was then at the head of NeXT, the computer company he had started after his years at Apple ended. He talks about his upbringing, his rivalry with Microsoft and his expectations for computing. The full exchange ran about seventy minutes, and its master tape went missing in shipping in 1995. A PAL VHS copy was found in a garage after Jobs died in 2011, and the recovered interview was shown in seventeen American theaters before arriving on DVD.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview (2012)
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- The original D1 videotape master of Steve Jobs's 1995 interview was lost in shipping; when Jobs died in 2011, Triumph of the Nerds director Paul Sen found a PAL VHS copy of the unedited interview in his garage and told Robert X. Cringely, who discussed releasing it as an independent film.
- Steve Jobs gave Robert X. Cringely roughly 70 minutes of interview for Triumph of the Nerds, but only about 10 of those minutes were used in the PBS documentary, leaving most of the footage unseen.
