Bill Gates on Steve Jobs

    por Tufail: Tech

    In a recent interview, Bill Gates reflected on why Steve Jobs was truly exceptional. He remarked, “It’s unbelievable what a great job he did because Apple went from being on the way to dying to being the world's most valuable company.” Gates also noted, “It's amazing to me that Steve, his skill set and mine, other than being a madman leader” (the full context is available in the linked video).

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    It's unbelievable what a great job he did, because Apple went from being on the way to dine to being the world's most valuable company. And Steve had really matured, and it was something. We helped write software for that. Then later, when Steve is sick, we had about five different conversations where we got to talk about kids and had computers done well, and where he was pretty thoughtful. It's amazing to me that Steve, you know, his skill set and mine, other than, okay, you know, madman, leader, you know, drawing people in, but his taste in design and user interface, and even his intuition about people, he was just genius in a way you can't explain. He didn't look at code and write code, whereas, you know, my thing is, hey, I'm an engineer, you know, here's the code, let's make it faster and smaller. So actually that allowed us to get along because, you know, what he was super good at, I was not good at, I envied those just incredible talents that he had. And in some ways he's more singular. You know, if you say to me, are there other people like you who are great at writing code and conceptualizing, yeah, I can name a number of people, including many who worked with me, But I don't know somebody who I say, oh yeah, you know, he's just like Steve Jobs.