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Gates

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, Jobs’s longtime rival and partner.

Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson

Explained in

• Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
• The Art of Creative Thinking, Rod Judkins

  Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft.

• Random Reminiscences of Men and Events, John D. Rockefeller

  Frederick Gates, an employee of the American Baptist Education Society. From the early 1890s he handled Rockefeller’s affairs and charitable giving, and he chaired the General Education Board.

• Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection, Jia Jiang

  Bill Gates, an American entrepreneur, cofounder of Microsoft, and one of the richest people in the world.

• Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy, Robert H. Frank

  Bill Gates, an American entrepreneur and cofounder of Microsoft.

• Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck: Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen

  Bill Gates, a Microsoft cofounder.

• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs, John Doerr

  Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft. Together with Melinda Gates he set up a charitable foundation that fights disease and poverty.

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