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Bill Gates offers up praise for his late rival, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. ... Microsoft's Bill Gates: Steve Jobs was a genius in this area. Brian Sozzi. February 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM.
Bill Gates was told by Apple founder Steve Jobs he should have dropped acid to help make Microsoft products more interesting. Gates said taking recreational substances dulled his mind. One might ...
But Jobs was still pretty down on Microsoft, especially after Steve Ballmer took over from Bill Gates as CEO in 2000. Jobs also wasn't confident in Steve Ballmer's abilities as Gates' successor. AP
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Steve Wozniak all responded to the film. Jobs's only public response occurred at the 1999 Macworld Expo. After Pirates of Silicon Valley had aired, he contacted Noah Wyle and told him that while he "hated" both the film and the screenplay, he liked Wyle's performance, noting "you do look like me."
Gates was the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on January 31, 2016, in which he talked about his relationships with his father and Steve Jobs, meeting Melinda Ann French, the start of Microsoft and some of his habits (for example reading The Economist "from cover to cover every week").
Bill Gates has opened up about his teenage experimentation with drugs including cannabis and LSD, and says he joked with Steve Jobs about taking “the wrong batch.”. The Microsoft co-founder ...
Jobs and Bill Gates were a panel at the fifth D: All Things Digital conference in 2007. In 2001, Jobs was granted stock options in the amount of 7.5 million shares of Apple with an exercise price of $18.30. It was alleged that the options had been backdated, and that the exercise price should have been $21.10. It was further alleged that Jobs ...
Bill Gates admired and envied Steve Jobs' ability to captivate an audience, a new book says. Beck Diefenbach/Reuters; Mike Cohen/Getty Images for The New York Times.