These are two very different, but both great people. Their product, in the timeline of human history, may be magnified to 1%.
Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates
Steve Jobs is on the front, paying tribute to the deceased.
Bill is a typical rich second-generation entrepreneur. His father is a lawyer and his mother serves on several boards. Of course, he is extremely smart. He has been a math master since he was a child. After he met Paul at the age of 8 and started programming, he took over many difficult problems in schools and outside companies because of his intelligence and competitiveness. Programming solves them perfectly. Under the "correction" of his mother, he went from being a nerd to expanding his practical and social skills. He was admitted to Harvard, but finally decided to put all his competitiveness and intelligence on business creation before he finished his studies.
As a young man, he was extreme, opinionated, and unabashedly self-interested. Microsoft's success is the outlet of his ambition.
In 2000, Bill and Miranda opened a joint foundation, and in 2008, Bill officially retired to run the foundation full-time and donated $58 billion in personal fortune. Which is more important to the foundation? Probably Bill's brain.
It's amazing that such a person who has never experienced poverty, serious illness, and has been buried in cold programming has started to do charity. I think this is the subtle influence of Miranda and Bill's mother on him. Bill was a warm hearted man when he was young. He'll make an interim offer 1 hour after Miranda rejects his second Friday night date, will make a long list of pros and cons when he's thinking of getting married, and he'll have a pros and cons list when the host says how can he be on career and bridge When they are all winners, they say oh and love. It's a tech nerd that blends romance overnight.
The foundation focuses on global public welfare, helping Africa solve malaria, polio, and safe nuclear power. If Bill pursued personal success when he was young, then after he turned fifty, he pursued human safety and health. Confucius said, at fifty you know the mandate of heaven.
Looking back at Steve Jobs, it was a rough counterattack. Abandoned by his biological parents at birth, the university is not a prestigious school. At the age of 19, after only one semester of study, he dropped out of school due to economic reasons and became an employee of the Atari Video Game Company. I borrowed a friend's garage and often went to the community college to attend classes such as calligraphy. But he was extremely sensitive and persevering in his hobbies. I love electronics, so I went to HP Labs for a part-time internship. I discovered the pursuit of beauty when I attended the typography course, so I devoted myself to the design process of every product and every detail of Apple for decades.
After being fired from his own company, Steve founded Pixar Animation Studios. After Apple went bankrupt in its own hands, Steve rose to fame with Toy Story and was worth $1 billion.
He's a tyrannical guy, similar to Dot and Bill, but they're both factual and straight-forward in nature.
He is also a person who pursues the truth of life, which is deeply influenced by hippie culture. In August 1974, the hottest season in the subcontinent, he made a pilgrimage to India. He said that some people are willing to be poets, some people are willing to be bankers, doing what they want to do is the hippie spirit. And he, presumably a preacher of good taste, Evangalist.
Recall that in 1955, two well-developed technology cities on the West Coast of the United States - Seattle and San Francisco, gave birth to these two game-breakers and creators. Who would have thought that they have changed the fate and taste of countless human beings in the following decades? Maybe even hundreds of years.
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