>Steve Jobs was a raging asshole, until it caught up with him. Turns out you can't bully cancer into submission
You really think that though both Bill and Steve were assholes at the beginning of their careers, but the fact that Bill gentrified himself is why he hasn't died of cancer and Steve did?
From what I've read, Steve Jobs was just too full of himself. He had a curable form of pancreatic cancer, and access to any health care conceivable. Instead of that he went with a fruit diet, acupuncture and a psychic. Apparently his diet was so nuts that when Ashton Kutcher tried replicating it, he ended up in the hospital.
Gates while an asshole in the business sense, from accounts that I've heard is a genuinely extremely intelligent person and has great technical understanding. While medicine is not his field from what I heard he seems to take well considered positions in that regard, and I think it's doubtful he'd sabotage his own chances of recovery in such a way.
Jobs was extremely intelligent as well (I'm not sure how you could be disingenuously extremely intelligent, btw :P ), but his decision to cure his cancer with this route was always mysterious.
You really think that though both Bill and Steve were assholes at the beginning of their careers, but the fact that Bill gentrified himself is why he hasn't died of cancer and Steve did?