Bill Gates Letter to Steve Jobs lived on His Bedside

Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs were long term rival and a well respected competitor but the relationship they both had wasn’t very imminent.

One of the UK’s leading newspaper Telegraph reports that Steve Job’s widow told Gates about the letter he wrote to Steve meant so much to him that he kept it on his bedside during his final days. Gates and Jobs had met to reminisce and re-connect in the months before Steve’s death due to complications from cancer in October 2011.

Gates says in his letter, “I told Steve about how he should feel great about what he had done and the company he had built. I wrote about his kids, whom I had got to know.“

Bill Gates got a phone call from Steve’s widow Laurene Powell Jobs. She said,

“Look, this biography (Steve Jobs Autobiography by Walter Issacson) really doesn’t paint a picture of the mutual respect you had.”