And I think sometimes that went too far." co-founder, Gates said the company in its early days had "a self-selected set of people who were mostly males, I'll admit, and yes we were pretty tough on each other. Reflecting on the culture he created in the 1970s as Microsoft Corp. While it's easy for leaders to "imitate the bad parts of Steve," said Gates, who described Jobs as an "asshole" at times, "he brought some incredibly positive things along with that toughness." This is not good,' " Gates added of his sometime collaborator and competitor.Įven when he failed, he succeeded, Gates said, citing the 1988 introduction of NeXT, the computer that "completely failed, it was such nonsense, and yet he mesmerized those people." NeXT ceased making hardware five years later, and in 1996 it was bought by Apple. "I have yet to meet any person who" could rival Jobs "in terms of picking talent, hyper-motivating that talent, and having a sense of design of, ‘Oh, this is good. "I was like a minor wizard because he would be casting spells, and I would see people mesmerized, but because I'm a minor wizard, the spells don't work on me," said Gates, the world's second-richest person, according to a transcript provided by the network. co-founder and chief executive officer who died of pancreatic cancer in 2011, in a segment on leadership to be broadcast Sunday on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS." Apple's Steve Jobs was singular in his ability to take a company "on a path to die" and turn it into the world's most valuable - in part by "casting spells," billionaire Bill Gates said.
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