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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
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 ...
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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").
Gates became the first American to take the top spot of the world's billionaires in 1995 with a net worth of $12.5 billion, and he remained there during the dot-com bubble's height in 1999 when his fortune peaked at $90 billion. After the dot-com bubble started to collapse in 2000, his wealth dropped to $60 billion, although he remained at the ...
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 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 ...
In a new interview, Michael Dell tells Yahoo Finance that as an aspiring business person he learned from the example of legendary Apple CEO Steve Jobs and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates.