Gates says Steve Jobs cast ‘spells’ to keep Apple from dying

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates speaks at the Economic Club of Washington's summer luncheon in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2019. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP)

Apple’s Steve Jobs was singular in his ability to take a company “on a path to die” and turn it into the world’s most valuable – in part by “casting spells,” billionaire Bill Gates said. 

Gates spoke of Jobs, the Apple Inc co-founder and chief executive officer who died of pancreatic cancer in 2011, in a segment on leadership to be broadcast Sunday on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS.