Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are two, if not the two most exciting people in the software industry. It’s been a decade since they met at the same time and place, and now they meet again at D5.
Bill built the first software company in the industry, and that was huge. And I think he built the first software company before anybody in our industry knew what a software company was.
— Steve Jobs
And Bill’s software company was one of the first to build Macintosh products; Microsoft and Apple go way back.
What Steve’s done is quite phenomenal. He has incredible taste and elegance. His ability to always come around and figure out where that next bet should be has been phenomenal. Apple really pursued the dream of building products that we want to use ourselves.
— Bill Gates
The highlights of this reunion are only 8 minutes, though I’m sure you’ll enjoy the whole interview.