The Revenge of The Nerds

This documentary talks about the tycoons of  computers and how they started their companies. This is the most interesting part of how the personal computer was created. Normally someone would think the computer was created by people how had a clear purpose on solving the problems that we had at that time. Yet that is not the case. Wozniak one of the founders of apple his main idea for building a computer was just to see what he was able to do with the circuits he had from a computer set. In the homebrew club that is where he was able to show to everyone what he was able to do with his own computer. People were impressed and wanted to know more about it. Steve Jobs was the person who was behind the idea of the business and saw the opportunity this new invitation could be of interest to a lot of people. The genius of an engineer and the vision of a business man caused that one of the computer behemoths was born Yet not everyone who was interested on solving the current problems that people had to solve was able to receive a huge compensation. For example the VisiCalc an invitation by two students at the time is one of the most used programs at the time. Which is Excel and there is no company that doesn't use it to check finances. Is even curious that our time we have courses to understand and explore this tool better. Yet these two students don't receive any money for Excel or any spreadsheet on the market. This is because they didn't create a patent on the software and caused other companies to take advantage of this . So with this two examples we have a clear idea that we cannot only depend on our genius idea and think this is the only way we would earn money in the market. We also need to see how to satisfy what the market needs and how to protect our ideas so it's easier to earn money and protect our work. Something that a lot of engineers seem to forget at some time.