Joint
In a rare joint appearance, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs appeared together at the All Things Digital conference today, which was interesting to see. Despite people thinking that an appearance like this is going to end up being a cat fight, they were both the consumate professionals, even when given the opportunity by Walt Mossberg (The Wall Street Journal interviewer) to do so. The interview with them both was reasonably interesting, as was the one with Steve Jobs alone which took place earlier in the conference. But I’d love the opportunity to sit down with them and find out what they’re really like. All that money, all that power, and Bill especially, just a geek who made some good choices when he was younger. I want to know how they managed to adapt, whether they can boil an egg, is there a person there behind the businessman. That’s far more interesting than what they think the next big thing in technology is going to be (either they really know, but they’re not going to tell you because they want to be the one to release it, or they have no idea so why bother asking).
