How Steve Jobs pitches a startup

[digression] I find it interesting that "what's old is new again" theme strikes again. In this video, near the 7 minute mark, he's talking about moving applications off of mainframes/servers and running them as desktop clients for ease of development, speed, cost, and so on. Sounds kind of like the inverse of what people seem to be trying to do today with web apps. Again.<p>And of course, this isn't the first time the cycle repeasts.

He did his homework and made a compelling presentation. And Steve is diligent as hell. Nice work on the pitch.

Next was not a start-up by the time Jobs filmed this. They had been in existence for around for six plus years by 1991.<p>It is a good vid though ;)

I liked the video, he did a great job of holding my attention, as someone noted, for 10 minutes and at the end of part 1 I can say I clearly understood what he was talking about, and that's critical both when presenting to customers and presenting to partners/investors.

hmmph, his dress code remained the same even then - I thought it was a marketing gimmick - guess not.

I love that he takes that accepted and rigid view of the workstation market and identifies a bunch of other smaller markets within it. It seems too often that cynics will write off those smaller markets because they believe in a more rigid and less complicated view of the marketplace.

Whatever magic Steve Jobs has, for me it didn't come through in this video; I lost interest about three minutes in. I'd guess his much-vaunted 'reality distortion field' is much more powerful in person.

That struck me as a little long and that was only part 1. I guess even at that point Steve Jobs had enough clout to hold peoples' attention for 10+ minutes.

I found it interesting that he pointed out workstations and "PC and Macintosh", then directed NeXT into a new market.<p>The same market that Apple went for after they bought NeXT.<p>Was it Steve Job's influence on Apple to push them to do it, or were they after that market first and bought NeXT because they were a good way into the market?