Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates doesn't speak much to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Bill Gates has revealed in a book that he is jealous of Steve Jobs. "The book, titled" "Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World," "has been written by New York Times journalist Anuprita Das." The book tells the story of a Macworld Boston event in 1997.
In 1997, Bill Gates invested $150 million in Apple. The announcement was to be made at an event in Boston, but Bill Gates refused to attend the event.
At Apple's Macworld event in Boston in August 1997, Steve Jobs enthralled the audience by walking across the stage and delivering a rousing speech. At the same time, Bill Gates was sitting in Seattle and watching all this through video conferencing, "the book says.
"Jobs communicated very easily with the audience. Stopping at the right place while giving a speech, giving a burst of laughter in the middle, Steve Jobs used to talk like a good artist on the stage. Bill Gates loved it and admired it.
Bill Gates had openly admitted that Steve Jobs felt natural when he gave some suggestions to the audience from the stage.
Bill Gates said it was fun to watch Jobs train before a public event. He was part of Steve Jobs' genius. But when the time came to speak on the stage, he used to present it so easily that he felt that he got it on the stage itself.
Talking about Steve Jobs, Gates added, "He was a great magician who mesmerised people. I was a magician younger than him, so I never came under his influence. But I have often seen Steve Jobs mesmerizing people with his impeccable voice. After that, when I looked at the audience in front of me, they were looking at Jobs in amazement, this picture made me jealous of Jobs.