Yeah Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were quite different kinds of talents.

Bill Gates was primarily a good businessman. He was good at strategizing in the market.

Steve Jobs was not an inventor per say but a visionary. He had the ability to see what technologies had potential.

E.g. the leaders of Xerox were pretty clueless about how revolutionary the Graphical user interfaces and object-oriented programming they developed was. Steve Jobs saw within minutes how revolutionary this technology was and immediately deviced plans to make a product out of it.

It was the same before he came back to Apple. Jonathan Ive had already designed the iMacs that saved Apple, but they were not getting a goahead by Apple leadership because they had no ability to see good design even if stared them in the face.

Steve Jobs immediately saw the potential and got iMac into production.

I have experienced these kinds of leaders myself. I remember pushing a more user friendly product, and the regular managers just didn't care. They you had one of these Steve Jobs like characters who had some sense of vision who would steam roll everyone else and push through real change.

At the same time we should be careful about worshipping these people. Steve Jobs tended to take credit for all sorts of stuff where maybe others should be given a lot more of the credit. He threw people under the bus all too easily.

Bill Gates has done a lot for vaccination world wide, but he was ruthless as a businessman and while promoting vaccines he has also been an advocate of a very neoliberal world view, opposing any removal of vaccine patents which would have been very useful today.