Last updated on 2012-05-15, by Tony

2 Movies to Help You Know About Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

As the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has celebrated his 28th birthday yesterday with a lot of blessing messages from Facebook users. As a young man ranking 35th in Forbes Rich List, he is viewed as another Bill Gates who is a living legend of Silicon Valley. Before his death, Steve Jobs was also of great influence to Silicon Valley.

Along with the gaining fame and fortune comes the increasing attention from all the people. Every move of celebrities like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates can arouse people’s great interest. Though people are admiring Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates for their brilliant achievements or even view them as idols, they actually know little about them.

The great potential market has thrilled authors and film makers to do something to demonstrate the true image of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs. As many people are eager to know their keys to success, Hollywood can always satisfy them with some sort of biographical movies.

The success of Nash is explained with A Beautiful Mind while The Pursuit of Happyness does the same to Chris Gardner. Here this post will present you two movies to help you know about Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

1. The Social Network

In 2011, The Social Network earned high performance in box office recipients while was surprisingly defeated by The King’s Speech. One important factor for its success lies in its plot that focuses on the founding and popularizing of Facebook. For those who want to know about Mark Zuckerberg’s success, they can refer to this movie.

Based on some true stories, the movie mainly focuses on the success of Mark Zuckerberg as well as his lawsuit cases with some students in Harvard. The movie presents you a real Mark who cares nothing about his appearance. In the movie he is always wearing slippers and slack suit even after he becomes a millionaire.

Silent as Mark is in the movie, he only says things that are relevant to Facebook. However, Mark Zuckerberg is quite optimistic and outgoing in real life. An attractive point of the movie lies in Mark’s lawsuit cases with two brothers and his best friend Erica Albright. Just as the movie post shows, the movie just want to tell you that you can’t success without making a few enemies.

2. Pirates of Silicon Valley

Made in 1999, this movie mainly shows you how Bill Gates and Steve Jobs manage to build Microsoft and Apple respectively. In the movie, you will get to know the struggles of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs during college years, the founding of Microsoft and Apple and the ingenious actions they take to achieve their goals.

For those computer engineers, they probably can’t accept some scenes where Jobs asks engineers to work day and night. The movie mainly focuses on Steve Jobs other than Bill Gates. Steve Jobs is made as a man who is kind of a tyrant because of his pursuit of perfectness while Bill Gates is a man who is kind of sly. The lawsuit case between Microsoft and Apple is also an attractive point to all.

Those are the two movies to help you get to know about Mark Zuckerburg, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. If you are interested in their ways to success, you can watch those movies via DVD player or convert those DVDs to mp4 files for your portable devices like The new iPad with DVD Ripper.