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New book says Bill Gates was envious of Steve Jobs' magnetism: 'How does he do that?'

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has publicly said he was "jealous" of late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs' ability to capture an audience.

"In August 1997, as Steve Jobs strode around the stage at Apple's Macworld event in Boston, electrifying the audience with his forceful, clear, and magnetic delivery, Gates sat in one of Microsoft's television studios thousands of miles away in Seattle, watching his nemesis," the book reads. "As he observed the loose-limbed ease with which Jobs spoke to the audience—the pauses at just the right moments, the speech dappled with humor, the sheer performative theater of it—Gates was filled with admiration and envy," the account continues. "It was always fun to watch him rehearse because part of his genius was, when he would finally do it, he would make it look like he's just thinking it up right there," he told Dax Shepard on the Armchair Expert podcast earlier this year.

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