Compare/Contrast Bill Gates & Steve Jobs
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22 September 2013 Compare/Contrast: Steve Jobs & Bill Gates
Steve Jobs (born in Green Bay, Wisconsin on the 24th of February 1955) is best known as the co-founder & CEO of Apple Computer and somewhat less so for his leadership of Pixar which is a computer animation studio. On the other hand, Bill Gates (born in Seattle, Washington on the 28th of October 1955) is known for the creation of the Windows operating system, as well as being the co-founder and current Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft.
As stated in the The American Spectator, “As young men born in the same year (1955), they set out from the same starting point, but with radically different personalities. In the early days of personal computers, both dropped out of college and launched their own businesses. Of the two, the late Steve Jobs was always the quick, live-for-the-moment hare, while Bill Gates was the dispassionate, lawyerly, bide-your-time tortoise” (Wilson). “Above all else, though, these rivals understood business. Neither had formal training in the black arts of balance sheets and income statements” (Lashinsky). Stated an article from CNN.
Although each company has its own philosophy, there is a slight difference between Microsoft's and Apple's philosophies because each philosophy has a different goal. Microsoft's philosophy is; "A computer on every disk in every house, running Microsoft software," which is more focused and concerned about running their own software in every computer. As for Apple's philosophy, it is "Make computers accessible to everyone and make it very easy to use," and that is more concerned about making their computers being easy to access and making it as easy as they can for everyone else to use.
They both established and co-founded their companies along with another person (co-founder). Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen who dropped out of Washington State University to follow his and Bill Gates dream of writing software
22 September 2013 Compare/Contrast: Steve Jobs & Bill Gates
Steve Jobs (born in Green Bay, Wisconsin on the 24th of February 1955) is best known as the co-founder & CEO of Apple Computer and somewhat less so for his leadership of Pixar which is a computer animation studio. On the other hand, Bill Gates (born in Seattle, Washington on the 28th of October 1955) is known for the creation of the Windows operating system, as well as being the co-founder and current Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft.
As stated in the The American Spectator, “As young men born in the same year (1955), they set out from the same starting point, but with radically different personalities. In the early days of personal computers, both dropped out of college and launched their own businesses. Of the two, the late Steve Jobs was always the quick, live-for-the-moment hare, while Bill Gates was the dispassionate, lawyerly, bide-your-time tortoise” (Wilson). “Above all else, though, these rivals understood business. Neither had formal training in the black arts of balance sheets and income statements” (Lashinsky). Stated an article from CNN.
Although each company has its own philosophy, there is a slight difference between Microsoft's and Apple's philosophies because each philosophy has a different goal. Microsoft's philosophy is; "A computer on every disk in every house, running Microsoft software," which is more focused and concerned about running their own software in every computer. As for Apple's philosophy, it is "Make computers accessible to everyone and make it very easy to use," and that is more concerned about making their computers being easy to access and making it as easy as they can for everyone else to use.
They both established and co-founded their companies along with another person (co-founder). Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen who dropped out of Washington State University to follow his and Bill Gates dream of writing software
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