In a recent interview with The Telegraph, Bill Gates revealed that he wrote a letter to Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs just before his unfortunate death to encourage Jobs for his matchless work and the company he build. Bill Gates wrote this letter after visiting to Steve Jobs for a personal meeting to chat about their common interests. In this last meeting with Steve Jobs, both friends “spent literally hours reminiscing and talking about the future.”
When the devil of death was knocking at the Jobs’ door, Gates wrote a letter to him in which he paid his tribute to Steve Jobs for his splendid work he did and acknowledged his wisdom and innovative powers he used to make Apple the world’s largest smartphone vendor and the world,s most valuable company as well.
“I told Steve about how he should feel great about what he had done and the company he had built. I wrote about his kids, whom I had got to know.” The letter wasn’t conciliatory, says Gates. “There was no peace to make. We were not at war. We made great products, and competition was always a positive thing. There was no [cause for] forgiveness.”
Just after the Jobs’ death, his widow Laurene Powell made a telephonic contact with Bill Gates and said;
“Look, this biography really doesn’t paint a picture of the mutual respect you had.’ And she said he’d appreciated my letter and kept it by his bed.”
Gates also told the newspaper that in spite of the fact they both were the racers of the same field and were competitors in the world of technology, they both had immense mutual respect for each other and were eager to share their future plans for boosting up their businesses;
“Steve was an incredible genius who contributed immensely to the field I was in. We had periods, like the early Macintosh, when we had more people working on it than they did. And then we were competitors. The personal computers I worked on had a vastly higher [market] share than Apple until really the last five or six years, where Steve’s very good work on the Mac and on iPhones and iPads did extremely well. It’s quite an achievement, and we enjoyed each [other's work].”
Via : The Telegraph