What did Jobs say to Gates for financing?

At the 1997 Boston Apple Products Exhibition, Jobs was ordered to return to the Jianghu in do or die, Apple. He is wearing his trademark black turtleneck long-sleeved T-shirt and jeans. At that time, he was the "interim CEO" of Apple. "We should abandon the concept of' let Apple win and Microsoft lose'." Jobs announced the cooperation between Apple and Microsoft to the world, and Bill Gates nodded and smiled behind him. Unfortunately, he can't imagine that he is releasing tigers into the mountains. ...

Information Times reporter Pan

"The biggest feature of Jobs is that he always surprises everyone, including his competitors." Dr. Tao Chuang, the chief Canadian research professor and CEO of PPTV Internet TV, a video website that once served as an executive of Microsoft's global team, revealed some details of Jobs to reporters.

Tao Chuang said that after Jobs returned to Apple, due to lack of funds, the first thing he did was to go directly to Microsoft and borrow 1 billion dollars from Gates. "At that time, Apple was poor, and Microsoft was already in a monopoly position in the PC field."

Gates lent him 1 billion dollars.

According to Tao Chuang, 1 billion dollars is not a small sum. Lending to rival Jobs made Bill Gates "a little hesitant". However, because Microsoft was already in a monopoly state in the PC field at that time, the US Congress has been seeking to split Microsoft.

Most importantly, Gates judged that Apple, which was in decline at that time, was no longer a threat to Microsoft. Lending money to Jobs will only alleviate the pressure on Microsoft from the anti-monopoly law of the US Congress, so he finally decided to lend this huge sum of money to Jobs. But I didn't expect that Jobs finally brought dying Apple back to life through high innovation, and even surpassed Microsoft in market value, becoming Microsoft's arch-rival.