Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates once again reiterated that he still can't match Apple co-founder Steve Jobs when it comes to speaking in public.
"Steve Jobs was a natural. It was always fun to watch him rehearse because part of his genius was, when he would finally do it, he would make it look like he's just thinking it up right there. I'll never achieve that level,” the philanthropist said on the Armchair Expert podcast while speaking to Dax Shepherd.
This is not the first time Gates made such a remark. In the 2015 biography, Becoming Steve Jobs, the Microsoft co-founder told authors Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli: “I was never in his league. I mean, it was just amazing to see how precisely he would rehearse. And if he’s about to go onstage, and his support people don’t have the things right, you know, he is really, really, tough on them."
“He’s even a bit nervous because it’s a big performance. But then he’s, on, and it’s quite an amazing thing,” Gates says in the book.
“I mean, his whole thing of knowing exactly what he’s going to say, but up on stage saying it in such a way that he is trying to make you think he’s thinking it up right then," he adds in the book.