**Toronto: History will forget founder of Apple’s Steve Jobs and will remember founder of Bill Gates, Business Insider quotes renowned writer Malcolm Gladwell.**At the Toronto Public Library’s Appel Salon, Malcolm Gladwell recently shared some interesting insights about entrepreneurs in Western culture.“We venerate entrepreneurs in our culture,” said Gladwell. “They are our new prophets. Literally, we worship them. If you read the literature about great entrepreneurs, it is iconography,” or “hagiography,” he continued.But do they deserve such hype and respect? Gladwell doesn’t think so.Eventually, entrepreneurs will be venerated for how they helped mankind, not their ability to make a ton of money. He used the contrast between legendary entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as an example:“Gates is the most ruthless capitalist, and then he wakes up one morning and he says, ‘enough.’ And he steps down, he takes his money, he takes it off the table.“I firmly believe that 50 years from now, he will be remembered for his charitable work, no one will even remember what Microsoft is.“And of the great entrepreneurs of this era people will have forgotten Steve Jobs. Who’s Steve Jobs again? There will be statues of Gates across the third world.”Putting light on why aren’t entrepreneurs like Jobs worthy of idolization Gladwell points out:“The greatest entrepreneurs are amoral. It’s not that they’re immoral, it’s that they’re amoral.”“They are completely single-minded and obsessively focused on the health of their enterprise,” said Gladwell. “That’s what makes them good at building businesses, but that’s what also makes them people who are not worthy of this level of hagiography.”“So we need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating,” said Gladwell. “They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders they wouldn’t be great businessmen. So when a businessman is a great moral leader, it is because they have maintained their conscience separately from their operations.”
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I totally disagree. People would not and do not remember Gates for his charitable work. Many many people dont even know that he is no longer the head of Microsoft. They still remember him as the head of Microsoft (and one of the richest person on the earth). Not many knows him as philanthropist.
Its amazing that the Gladwell failed to recognize the revolution Steve Jobs brought in the tech world. Hewlett Packard is going to be laying off 1/3rd of its work force because people are not buying computers anymore. They are buying tablets and Smart Phones. Social networking site owners and App builders have become millionaires because of smart phones revolution whose credit goes to Steve Jobs. Apple is ranked as most valuable corporation in the world.
Yes, Jobs was obsessed about the health of his enterprise, but not through mooching people off their money, but by providing them quality. Consumers are not ungrateful bunch of people. Consumers are probably the most loyal bunch of group in the world. Once they start loving something/someone, they stay loyal.
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There isn't going to be a history.
So relax.
History will remember Bill Gates, will forget Steve Jobs
Bill Gates is busy nowadays in Pakistan working against Polio!
There isn't going to be a history.
So relax.
. Why? Where r all the historians:)
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I am suer we will remember Gates, but more as a computer giant than a philanthropist. Simailarly we will remember Jobs.
I mean dont we still remember Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Charles Schwab?
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I believe history will remember both of them. Bill for bringing PC to people's homes and Steve for bringing music to people's pocket.
Its very hard for Bill to overshadow his achievements in IT world and get known for something else now (not impossible thought but It will take lot of time and effort)
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. Why? Where r all the historians:)
Thanks to computer/ipads and all the consumer culture, we are going to destroy the planet.
So if any thing, you and Bill Gates would both would known as human who once occupied earth.
More like dinosaurs.
History will remember Bill Gates, will forget Steve Jobs
I think we remember ppl for two reasons one is gud one is bad,don't we remember hitler...
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You guys need to read the impact of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, just two programs (Global Health Program & Global Development Program) of Gates foundation is so large and their scale is such that they are outnumbering UN itself.
2035: who is Steve Jobs? the founder of Apple? what is apple? the company who created the first touch-screen phone? oh yeh.. tech industry is moving at abnormal speed, we didn't had IPhone & Facebook 5 years ago, God Knows what is in the pipeline.. tomorrow we will have another revolutionary and magical product.
I think in coming decades people will forget about Steve Jobs, but Bill Gates will be a shining star. Bill is doing marvelous job, and his charitable work is beacon of light for millions of souls.
Re: History will remember Bill Gates, will forget Steve Jobs
You guys need to read the impact of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, just two programs (Global Health Program & Global Development Program) of Gates foundation is so large and their scale is such that they are outnumbering UN itself.
2035: who is Steve Jobs? the founder of Apple? what is apple? the company who created the first touch-screen phone? oh yeh.. tech industry is moving at abnormal speed, we didn't had IPhone & Facebook 5 years ago, God Knows what is in the pipeline.. tomorrow we will have another revolutionary and magical product.
I think in coming decades people will forget about Steve Jobs, but Bill Gates will be a shining star. Bill is doing marvelous job, and his charitable work is beacon of light for millions of souls.
Hmmm, name 2 philanthropist that you remember from 70's
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bill gates will be rememberd for the WINDOWS virus he created.
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Hmmm, name 2 philanthropist that you remember from 70's
We might not be able to but we are not at the receiving end of their philanthropy. I am sure they will remembered in the countries where their work is having an impact.
But I guess those people don't 'count'?
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^ That is exactly the point. That is whay I am saying that Gates will be remembered worldwide for his work as a tech giant, and not as a philanthropist. Similarly, Jobs will be remembered for the same.
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Malcolm Gladwell may be a genius and all ...but he has been wrong on more than one occasion.
His stance on tobacco industry over the years one example, his shilling for pharma industry, especially Ritalin being second, social media being ineffective as a social movement third, His support for Enron's Jeff Skilling fourth, his views/stats on hormone therapy fifth..
This will be another one :) I dont dislike gladwell, read his books, met the guy, great speaker, but away from the mike when he is not putting on a show, quite awkward of a character, somewhat of a mix between poindexter and sideshow bob.
I think history will remember Jobs more than it will remember Gladwell.
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Steve who?
Re: History will remember Bill Gates, will forget Steve Jobs
I totally disagree. People would not and do not remember Gates for his charitable work. Many many people dont even know that he is no longer the head of Microsoft. They still remember him as the head of Microsoft (and one of the richest person on the earth). Not many knows him as philanthropist.
Its amazing that the Gladwell failed to recognize the revolution Steve Jobs brought in the tech world. Hewlett Packard is going to be laying off 1/3rd of its work force because people are not buying computers anymore. They are buying tablets and Smart Phones. Social networking site owners and App builders have become millionaires because of smart phones revolution whose credit goes to Steve Jobs. Apple is ranked as most valuable corporation in the world.
Yes, Jobs was obsessed about the health of his enterprise, but not through mooching people off their money, but by providing them quality. Consumers are not ungrateful bunch of people. Consumers are probably the most loyal bunch of group in the world. Once they start loving something/someone, they stay loyal.
Steve Job's contribution is a little over-rated I think, he didn't invent anything other than tablets and the smart phone revolution had started long before iPhone. Apple only added some new attractive features compared to existing technologies. Even iPod was nothing new but just another MP3 player with a larger storage, there was already an MP3 player craze at the time but other players had much smaller storage.
Apple's phones and tablets still have a very low market share compared to devices from other companies even though they are the most profitable that makes Apple so rich. I can only think of Steve Jobs as a person who had the skill of making technologies more attractive for ordinary users.
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^ Now thats not fair to say. His contribution in the tech industry is much more than making it pretty.
On the topic, I think history remember strong characters and no one can deny Jobs’s strong personality. He definitely had much more charisma to be remembered long after Gates.
History in my opinion is much more forgiving to personal shortcomings of people. I think even as an obsessed mad entrepreneur, history will remember Jobs more than Gates.
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I don't know who will be remembered more.
All I know is that I have known about Bill Gates since I was a little kid. His name was (and is) always mentioned on school, on tv, in books and magazines. I ( and I am sure many many other average Joes) had never heard about Steve Jobs until he died.
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I'll surely forget the stuck up Steve for not creating easily Jail breakable products! STEVE I hope you go heaven and find that there is no internet connection there!