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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").
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
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 ...
A record of the heights of the presidents and presidential candidates of the United States is useful for evaluating what role, if any, height plays in presidential elections in the United States. Some observers have noted that the taller of the two major-party candidates tends to prevail, and argue this is due to the public's preference for ...
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 ...
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 ...
William Henry Gates II [1] (November 30, 1925 – September 14, 2020), better known as Bill Gates Sr., was an American attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader.He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates (a predecessor of K&L Gates), [2] and also served as president of both the Seattle King County and Washington State Bar associations. [3]
Gates has previously said he was "jealous" of Jobs' ability to captivate an audience. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were some of the most influential tech leaders of their time while at the helm of ...