BILL GATES/STEVE JOBS
STUDY GUIDE
Bill Gates
BILL/STEVE SIMILARITIES
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
College dropouts
Highly intelligent
Entrepreneurs
Had partners in business
Both went to college in the 70’s
Demanding
Thought IBM was the enemy
Bought or borrow business idea
Company is public and have stock
prices
10. Revolutionized technology
11. Changed the world
12. Married with children
13. visionaries
Steve Jobs
1. Founded Apple Computers
(hardware)
2. Partner named Steve Wozniak
3. Adopted
4. Attended Reed College
5. Fired from his company
6. Wealth is 5 billion
7. Leadership style autocratic (he
centralized the authority)
8. Cocky attitude and lack of
management skills
9. Also invented the IPhone, IPad,
MacBook
1. Founded Microsoft, Inc. (software)
2. Microsoft developed MS-DOS for
IBM
3. Partner named Paul Allen
4. Attended a preparatory high school
(Lakeside)
5. Dropped out of Harvard
6. Great negotiator
7. Leadership style participative (he
involves his subordinate in decision
making)
8. Presently, 2nd richest man in the
world; wealth 50 billion
9. Owns part of Apple Computer
10. Develop Microsoft
Windows, Office and Bing