With Anthony Michael Hall, Noah Wyle, Joey Slotnick, J.G. Since Jobs passed away from pancreatic cancer in October 2011, dozens of books, TV shows and movies have been created that document the Apple co-founder and his life. Besides exploring the beginning of the computer revolution, the show also looks at the battle to get airplanes in the sky with the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss; the competition for the perfect revolver between Samuel Colt and Daniel Wesson; the atomic arms race between Werner Heisenberg and Robert Oppenheimer; and more. Not the students who occupied the dean's office in the late '60s. Teenagers Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are shown caught on the campus during a riot between students and police. If there is still any doubt that Jobs was a total douche, this should settle it. Jobs is portrayed as a dreamy hippie turned hard-nosed businessman, while Gates is shown as a driven programming nerd. Burke states that he began the film as a PC user and ended a Mac user. He said that Jobs was invited by PARC to view their technology in exchange for the ability to buy pre-IPO Apple stock. Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates talks about the traits he envied in the late Steve Jobs in a recent podcast interview. Not the anti-war marchers who were determined to overthrow the establishment. He was brilliant, volcanic, obsessive, suspicious, even vicious in a business sense. "[3], Anthony Michael Hall, who was cast as Bill Gates, commented on his interest in the role, stating that he, "really fought for this part because I knew it would be the role of a lifetime ... it was a thrill and a daunting challenge to play someone of his stature and brilliance. He seemed to be the most Shakespearean figure in American culture in the last 50 years I could think of – the rise of, the fall of, and the return of. As with Wozniak in the earlier segment, Ballmer narrates Gates's story, particularly the moment when Gates discovers the existence of Ed Roberts's MITS Altair causing him to drop out of Harvard. That suggestion was based on an incorrect Wall Street Journal [article] that said I was leaving Apple because I didn't like things there. Some of the world's greatest stories are about rivalries -- and this is what the National Geographic Channel is banking on with its new television show titled "American Genius.". Publication date 1999-01-01 Topics Steve Jobs, Bill Gates Language English. The Jobs vs. Gates rivalry goes back to the late 1960s and early 1970s when the modern computer was just getting its start.