I was part of a documentary shot on the history of Silicon Valley.  They needed a poster child who would complain about Steve Jobs and VCs on camera - as most people won’t.

They didn’t put anything into the edits about me, who I am, what I did or do - but they edited in all sorts of footage - like me ridiculing Jobs, complaining about this - or kvetching about that.

I guess that sort of stuff makes for better press than facts, commerce or me making any money.  But they did spell my name correctly and for that I thank them.  But they sure showed lots of Andy Herzfeld, John Warnock and the Woz.

There are a bunch fo clips up at YouTube.

I think they think that you’re supposed to go buy the DVD - which seems ludicrous - but whatever - good luck.  I told them to put the whole dam thing up - we’ll see what happens.

If I’m lucky only a few of you will see the closing credits impromptu guitar jam I did. I swear I made up those lyrics completely in real-time. I swear!

I did NOT write those lyrics out and pretend like they’re anything more than just stream of conciousness!

Stephen O’Hear did a great job of giving an outsider’s perspective to something very mysterious and alusive.  I forget sometimes that I used to live in Chicago and only came here in 1988.

But we were the first software company in SOMA - and helped create one of the greatest lock-in strategies - ever.

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