Pirates of Silicon Valley

Pirates of Silicon Valley is a 1999 made-for-television film that was written and directed by, and broadcast on (TNT). The story is a dramatization of the early rivalry between Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, leading up to the bailout of the near-bankrupt Apple by Microsoft in August 1997.

Apple Computer

 * as Steve Jobs
 * as Steve Wozniak
 * as Dan Kottke
 * as Chrisann Brennan (renamed to "Arlene" in the movie)
 * as Mike Markkula
 * as John Sculley
 * as

Microsoft

 * as Bill Gates
 * as
 * as

Xerox

 * as (unnamed in the movie)

Reception
Pirates of Silicon Valley is rated 89% fresh by and received an audience score of 92%. The movie was nominated for five. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak considers it to be the best dramatization about Steve Jobs. Jobs himself invited actor to participate in a prank in which Wyle impersonated Jobs to deliver the beginning of the keynote address at Macworld Expo in New York in July 1999.