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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.
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
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 ...
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 ...
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").
Steve Jobs was an American pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s who, along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, founded Apple Computer.Before and after his death in 2011, Jobs was known as a counter-culture figure within the computer industry, and as a perfectionist who could be demanding of his colleagues and employees—sometimes to the point of cruelty.
Photograph by Kjetil Ree (Wikimedia Commons). Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were born the same year. Both dropped out of college. Both started companies with good friends: Gates founded Microsoft with ...
Triumph of the Nerds is a 1996 British/American television documentary, produced by John Gau Productions and Oregon Public Broadcasting for Channel 4 and PBS.It explores the development of the personal computer in the United States from World War II to 1995.