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New York Times.
“We’ve had some sophisticated 
people see the hardware—it blew them away. Steve and his whole NeXT team are the darnedest 
bunch of perfectionists I’ve ever seen.”
Perot also traveled in rarefied social and business circles that complemented Jobs’s own. He 
took Jobs to a black-tie dinner dance in San Francisco that Gordon and Ann Getty gave for King 
Juan Carlos I of Spain. When the king asked Perot whom he should meet, Perot immediately 
produced Jobs. They were soon engaged in what Perot later described as “electric conversation,” 
with Jobs animatedly describing the next wave in computing. At the end the king scribbled a note 
and handed it to Jobs. “What happened?” Perot asked. Jobs answered, “I sold him a computer.”
These and other stories were incorporated into the mythologized story of Jobs that Perot told 
wherever he went. At a briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, he spun Jobs’s life 
story into a Texas-size yarn about a young man
so poor he couldn’t afford to go to college, working in his garage at night, playing with computer chips, 
which was his hobby, and his dad—who looks like a character out of a Norman Rockwell painting—
comes in one day and said, “Steve, either make something you can sell or go get a job.” Sixty days later, 
in a wooden box that his dad made for him, the first Apple computer was created. And this high school 
graduate literally changed the world.
The one phrase that was true was the one about Paul Jobs’s looking like someone in a Rockwell 
painting. And perhaps the last phrase, the one about Jobs changing the world. Certainly Perot 
believed that. Like Sculley, he saw himself in Jobs. “Steve’s like me,” Perot told the 
Washington 
Post
’s David Remnick. “We’re weird in the same way. We’re soul mates.”
Gates and NeXT
Bill Gates was not a soul mate. Jobs had convinced him to produce software applications for the 
Macintosh, which had turned out to be hugely profitable for Microsoft. But Gates was one person 
who was resistant to Jobs’s reality distortion field, and as a result he decided not to create software 
tailored for the NeXT platform. Gates went to California to get periodic demonstrations, but each 
time he came away unimpressed. “The Macintosh was truly unique, but I personally don’t 
understand what is so unique about Steve’s new computer,” he told 
Fortune.
Part of the problem was that the rival titans were congenitally unable to be deferential to each 
other. When Gates made his first visit to NeXT’s Palo Alto headquarters, in the summer of 1987, 
Jobs kept him waiting for a half hour in the lobby, even though Gates could see through the glass 
walls that Jobs was walking around having casual conversations. “I’d gone down to NeXT and I 
had the Odwalla, the most expensive carrot juice, and I’d never seen tech offices so lavish,” Gates 
recalled, shaking his head with just a hint of a smile. “And Steve comes a half hour late to the 
meeting.”
Jobs’s sales pitch, according to Gates, was simple. “We did the Mac together,” Jobs said. “How 
did that work for you? Very well. Now, we’re going to do this together and this is going to be 
great.”
But Gates was brutal to Jobs, just as Jobs could be to others. “This machine is crap,” he said. 
“The optical disk has too low latency, the fucking case is too expensive. This thing is ridiculous.” 

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He decided then, and reaffirmed on each subsequent visit, that it made no sense for Microsoft to 
divert resources from other projects to develop applications for NeXT. Worse yet, he repeatedly 
said so publicly, which made others less likely to spend time developing for NeXT. “Develop for 
it? I’ll piss on it,” he told