BBC Airs Insightful Documentary — Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy

By Rob Scott
December 21, 2011

BBC last week broadcast an hour-long documentary titled “Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy,” in which BBC’s Evan Davis examines Jobs’ “audacious message of revolution” and attempts to answer the question: “How did a drug-taking college dropout create one of the most successful corporations in the world?”
“This is the inside story of how Steve Jobs took Apple from a suburban garage to global supremacy,” explains Davis in the opening.
The documentary is available on YouTube (for now); Forbes has embedded the video into its article covering the special.
Interview subjects include tech insiders such as Tim Berners-Lee, Steve Wozniak, Robert X. Cringely, Steven Levy and John Sculley; friends, colleagues and competitors from Jobs’ early years; marketing and business leaders; Apple executives, technologists and designers from the company’s different eras; and for some added cultural perspective, English author and TV personality Stephen Fry.
Appropriately flavored by the occasional Bob Dylan tune, the documentary examines Jobs’ efforts with Apple, Next and Pixar; his sometimes bumpy relationships; the ebb and flow of a career marked by success and failure; and at the heart of it all, as aptly described by Stewart Brand, “Steve Jobs never left his countercultural frame of reference and so his way of staying forever young was to stay forever hippy.”

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