| Basic [ Steve Jobs ] [ Bill Gates ] | |||
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| Steve Jobs | Bill Gates | ||
| Born |
Steven Paul Jobs (1955-02-24)February 24, 1955 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
William Henry Gates III (1955-10-28) October 28, 1955 (age 66) Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
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| Died |
October 5, 2011(2011-10-05) (aged 56) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
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| Cause of death | Neuroendocrine cancer | -- | |
| Resting place | Alta Mesa Memorial Park | -- | |
| Occupation |
Entrepreneur industrial designer investor media proprietor |
Software developer investor entrepreneur |
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| Years active | 1976–2011 | 1972–present | |
| Known for |
Pioneer of the personal computer revolution with Steve Wozniak Co-creator of the Apple II, Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad, and first Apple Stores |
Co-founder of Microsoft and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | |
| Title |
Co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple Inc. Co-founder, primary investor and chairman of Pixar Founder, chairman and CEO of NeXT |
Co-chairperson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Chairman and founder of Branded Entertainment Network Chairman and founder of Cascade Investment Chairman and co-founder of TerraPower Founder of Breakthrough Energy Technology advisor of Microsoft |
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| Board member of |
The Walt Disney Company Apple Inc. |
Berkshire Hathaway Microsoft (former, both) |
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| Spouse(s) |
Laurene Powell (m. 1991) |
Melinda French (m. 1994; div. 2021) |
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| Partner(s) | Chrisann Brennan (1972–1977) | -- | |
| Children | 4, including Lisa Brennan-Jobs | 3 | |
| Education | -- | Harvard University (dropped out) | |
| Parents | -- |
Bill Gates Sr. (father) Mary Maxwell (mother) |
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| Awards | -- | Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016) | |
| Website | -- |
www |
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| Books | -- |
The Road Ahead, written with Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold and journalist Peter Rinearson, was published in November 1995. It summarized the implications of the personal computing revolution and described a future profoundly changed by the arrival of a global information superhighway. Business @ the Speed of Thought was published in 1999, and discusses how business and technology are integrated, and shows how digital infrastructures and information networks can help to get an edge on the competition. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (February 2021) presents what Gates learned in over a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address climate problems. |
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