How steve jobs and bill gates went from friends to bitter enemies

Jobs was a genius. What he did, particularly when he came back lớn Apple... His ability to lớn pick people, his taste in people, even for skillsets that he didn"t have himself...it"s truly phenomenal.

And there"s no chance in hell it happens without him....

So that period between when he goes back lớn Apple & when he sadly dies quite young, no one else can vị what he did there.

I couldn"t have done that. I don"t know anyone who could have.

I suppose what I find most moving & even surprising about Gates"s answer here is that five-word sentence toward the end: "I couldn"t have done that."

At the height of their rivalry, of course, it was about each of them insisting they could vì more than the other. They annoyed the heck out of each other with their pronouncements, too. Và they both seemed lớn believe what they were saying.

After hearing the podcast, I"ve spent a bit of time scouring Gates"s comments about Jobs over the last few years.

I"m sure I"ve missed some, because Gates spends a lot of time talking with people now, và it"s not as though Jobs doesn"t come up often.

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But I think there are three areas in particular where Gates has expressed respect, & perhaps even some jealousy, for Jobs"s abilities as a visionary leader.

"Steve Jobs was always more of a natural at that," Gates told the Wall Street Journal last year. "I wish I could be as magical because I have causes that are in some ways more impactful & I need to make sure they don"t get ignored."

Maybe this resonates for you, too.I know that many of the good things I"ve accomplished, especially in business, were helped at least in part by competition with rivals I respected.

Butittakes a big person khổng lồ acknowledge that your rival accomplished something you couldn"t have--and that he or she honed skills that you haven"t been as successful at.

If I had to showroom a caveat to Gates"s praise, it"s that he focuses it largely on the things that Jobs accomplished after he returned khổng lồ Apple--and therefore, toward the end of the men"s active rivalry.

AndI suspect it has to be affected by the wistful knowledge that while Gates continues to showroom to his legacy, Jobs is now an historical figure--and even byeven the sheer joy of living long enough to lớn develop the wisdom of age.

Still, if these kinds of reflections wind up forming the coda on the relationship between these two remarkable entrepreneurs, it"s fitting & maybe even inspiring.

For better or worse, there"s nothing like a deeply felt rivalry lớn drive people forward.And there"s also probably nothing healthier than stepping back later lớn recognize why it worked.