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MarketWatch
Steven Levy, who has covered Steve Jobs since the early 1980s, says the Apple chief "has charisma, a special sense of importance. He could say his opinion was right even when other people say otherwise." Levy tells Jon Friedman that Jobs and Bill Gates have little in common as interview subjects. "Jobs has something he wants you to know about and you don't have to worry about gaps in the conversation. With Gates, you have to be really well prepared." Or else. "He once threw a pencil at me," says Levy.