Oral History of Mike Markkula

[@Rach1941]

An exceptional interview. Mike is a humble genius who knows more about Apple and silicon valley than most other long timers.

[@wolves7655]

I came to visit because of Apple but found the whole interview fascinating. I would encourage any young person especially to listen to this man who embodies for me the qualities of hard work and moral integrity. Many thanks for the upload.

[@rabidbigdog]

Yes, values set aside by modern-day Apple.

[@ProBloggerWorld]

Fantastic interview. Really impressed by Mark. He is the congenial 3rd man and listening to all the seemingly small details he mentions, I get the impression, that he is another Steve. What a winner and gentleman! I would love to talk to him for hours about all the details that shape and oil a machine, so that it gets momentum and keeps it. Hint: Don’t skip to the Apple part. Only by understanding his previous work one can understand how instrumental he really was. It weren’t the 200k.

[@superviewer]

What an inspirational mix of talent and personality. Thanks to both Mike and the museum for sharing with the rest of us.

[@hartone]

What a humble gentleman. Wish well to him.

[@ASMR-Podcast-Psicologico]

He is so transparent, love him❤ not so many people have those qualities in the bussiness enviroment

[@BjrnOttoVasbottenbjovas]

What a great interview!

[@Fred_Raimer]

Thanks so much for this! I never knew much about Mike, but he is an amazing and really cool guy. I could listen to him for another 2 1/2 hours and still want more! It would be an honor to know him personally, and I would expect a lot of fun too.

[@MrGiuse72]

I read about Markkula here and there many times. A couple of times I've gone through the Silicon Valley History chain that links ..mililtary microwave technology-Fairchild-Intel-Apple-Atari-many others and the people who made things happening. Reading books, searching the web for infos and docs (now extensively available on the web)...and I've loved doing it for curiosity and because it teaches lessons for work and for life. AND....things aren't the way they are reported in the mainstream story telling. Things are always more COMPLEX and more interesting. And the job made by Mike Markkula not only in Apple, is a great example. He was a very good engineer. And now I hear from his voice that he read management books, attended marketing courses. He got prepared for the task. So....the story of getting successful complanies up and running is not a kid's game. You got to know what you are doing and getting education besides OJT has important value. And that has come out of the interview. Thank you.

[@Fred_Raimer]

Excellent synopsis, and I couldn't agree more.

[@RichFerreiraIns]

Mike, I am so impressed with you. Thanks for this interview. BTW, thanks for mentioning my Regnart school from 1963. I grew up off Terrace off Bubb and worked with some of your colleagues during my semi career and MBA at Santa Clara in 1978.

[@GChief117]

1:26:08 while reading more in depth about convertible bonds, and getting an Dun&Bradstreet number, one of the things that’s crucial at this point, is the business’s credit rating, this was one of the crucial to help apple go public in 1976. A business from day 1, a big company from day 0

[@michaelwalsh9920]

Mike is the real Batman! This is so unbelievably cool, total respect.

[@conocerseasimismo]

The calm actittude in both of you is fascinating. Deep interwiew, this is how i like ❤

[@paulm6081]

Very important interview thanks for making this happen

[@damien1269]

I too was born on 11 February like him but 44 years later I definitely look up to him as my role model. It is very important to know that there wouldn't have been Apple company with him

[@frankmcfarlane-e8m]

im an artist..an artsty fartsy... i know nearly nothing about techno-science stuff... yet i have polymathic interests... i am here to say that i LOVE this fella... i understand a LOT of what he is saying yet im an innocent... a know nothing... but what fun it is! MM said: "i ended up running all the integrated circuit marketing at fairchild"... even me, an ignorant, knows the significance of THAT...and im only 30 mins in!

[@jaimelpz]

Great one, congrats. This guy is unique

[@mijazin]

I find it amazing only 7.9 ppl watched this.... Aldous Huxley's, Brave New World, comes to mind.

[@davyroger3773]

A legend from the PC Revolution

[@bryallen11]

Amazing man!!!

[@GChief117]

1:12:13

[@eriklethdanielsen3968]

who is Bob?

[@hiranmay]

legend

[@bradfromthevalley]

Armas Clifford "Mike" Markkula Jr, clifford the big red dog and Marmaduke the big red dog, made me think MArduk, and MarkKula made me think Drak-Kula,

[@nailcarter1523]

Have to wait til hour 1 to get to apple

[@davyroger3773]

The stuff on Fairchils Semiconductor was just as intresting, without Bob Noyce and friends, there would be no Apple

[@rabidbigdog]

Disappointing to hear Mike claiming something Apple copied from Xero PARC, which Microsoft ... errr ... also 'adapted' was the reason Apple nearly went bankrupt and Microsoft zoomed ahead. Such a simplistic re-writing of history.

[@rabidbigdog]

Almost everything in computing is built on the work of others. One party claiming (in the courts) prior art is a complete disaster. Microsoft executed with customers far better, chipping away at improving things until we reached Windows NT, while Jobs was out there claiming everyone should live-with 'co-operative' multi-crashing.

[@scallen3841]

Fan boy much