“Take acid”: Steve Jobs tip for Bill Gates improves Microsoft products

It can be imagined that Steve Jobs only talked about emerging technologies, talent management and economic perspectives-but, it seems, hallucinogenic drugs were also a theme. According to Gates, the co -founder of Apple believed that the co -founder of Microsoft should have used acid when projecting his products.

Titan technology billionaire, with a $ 164 billion heritage, said: ‘Steve Jobs once said I would like me to take acid, because then maybe I would taste better in the design of my products.’

Jobs was considered a visionary that revolutionized product design in the 1990s and 2000s and raised its importance in the technology industry through the launch of products such as IMAC, iPod, iPad and iPhone.

Meanwhile, Microsoft was busy building its cloud computing software – still a large bastion of the $ 3.1 trillion company to this day – and launching work -oriented services such as Word and Excel.

It seems that such innovations – and as they were later presented to customers – did not impress much Jobs.

Gates said he responded to Jobs’ provocation with, ‘Look, I took the wrong lot.’

Gates explained: “I took the coding lot, and this guy took the marketing and design lot, so good for him. Because his talents and mine – besides being energy leaders and surpassing the boundaries – did not override much. ”

The pair had a kind of love and hatred relationship while Jobs was alive, but Gates clearly admires the talents of their rival, adding: “(Jobs) would not know what a line of code meant, and their ability to think about design and Marketing and things like that (…) I envy these skills. I’m not on the same level as him. ”

Jobs made his thoughts about the lost opportunity of public gates, although it is unclear if he ever approached them directly to the founder of Microsoft.

In 2011, Jobs told the author Walter Isaacson: “(Gates would be) a broader guy if he had taken acid once or gone to a (spiritual space of Hinduism) when he was younger.”

Gates about youth drug experiments

It seems that Jobs was not aware that Gates, 69, had used recreational drugs in his youth, with today’s father of three confirming that he smoked marijuana in high school.

Interest was not “because it did something interesting,” Gates told it, but because “I thought I might look cool and some girl would find it interesting. It didn’t work out, so I gave up. ”

Interest in recreational substances, he added, arose from his “optimism”: “I am willing to take risks, I tried many things.”

However, when Gates started working for real at Microsoft alongside Paul Allen in his 20 years, he stopped using drugs.

“Another thing about my personality is that I like my mind to work and be very logical,” Gates explained. “So I stopped … because it left my mind sloppy, either during or the next day.”