Steve Jobs, Bill Gates Relationship: He 'Was Always Cooler Than Me,' Microsoft Founder Says [VIDEO]

Bill Gates said Wednesday that he thinks Steve Jobs received more popular acclaim every time he introduced a new Apple gadget than the Microsoft chairman ever did for his work.

During his guest appearance on The Colbert Report, Gates talked about his nearly two decade effort to promote education and put an end to childhood death through his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. However, Colbert pointed out that the Microsoft founder never received the same public recognition for his actions that Jobs was said to have received every time he unveiled a smaller Apple device.

"I was lucky enough to meet Steve Jobs a few times, and people always say 'what a cool guy he was," Colbert told Gates. "You're out there saving the world, but you don't have that 'cool' factor. Does it ever bug you?"

Gates took the comment in stride and replied, "He was always cooler than me."

"He was brilliant. He had his own style, he had his own approach. And mine is I guess a little geekier than his was," Gates told Colbert, to which the show's host added, "Maybe saving the world will get cool,."

Gates also talked about his days working at Microsoft and its long hours. He said, "I do miss the intensity. It was phenomenally fun. For my 20′s, 30′s and 40′s, it was the coolest thing I could have done."

Gates remains the largest individual shareholder of Microsoft with 6.4 percent of the common stock. He is regularly ranked among the wealthiest people in the world and was considered the wealthiest from 1995 to 2009. He stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000 but remains its chairman and created the position of chief software architect.

A biopic about Jobs opens in theaters on April 19. The former Apple CEO and the company's co-creator died in October of 2011 from pancreatic cancer.