Viral post reveals 18-year-old Steve Jobs and Bill Gates’ resume – Times of India

A social media post with resumes of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is going viral on the internet. Shared by Bloomberg anchor Jon Erlichman, the post is captioned “Steve Jobs and Bill Gates’ resumes at age 18”. The post has gained about 96K views.
It shows a 1973 resume of Steve Jobs describing ‘electronics’ and ‘tech’ as special abilities. The resume shows ‘design engineering’ ‘digital’ as his interests.

Take a look at the resumes here

The shared resume of Bill Gates, on the other hand, depicts his experience across various programming languages, including FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC, and computers, including PDP-10, PDP-8, and CDC-6400. In the resume, Gates mentioned his salary as $35,000 (approx. Rs 29 lakh). He also mentioned his partnership with Paul G Allen, with whom he later co-founded Microsoft.
The resume reads “Currently enrolled for first year at Harvard College. Courses taken include: Operating System. Structure, Database Management, C.pillar Construction and Computer Graphics. Honors student and received A’s in all of the above”.
How X users reacted
Commenting on the post, a user wrote “This is history. It’s fantastic!”. “Steve Jobs even wrote the date correctly, something that escapes most Americans,” wrote another.
“Unknown fact: both were forklift certified but shy to mention it,” commented a third.