![]() And billions of potential users aren’t served by its current design. The Ancient Romans, Chinese, and the Abbasid Caliphate all used it.īut product development plateaued over the years. This technology has been around in some form or another since the dawn of civilization. There’s a piece of technology we all use every day but barely notice it. ![]() I believe this episode includes the greatest success story ever told on the show. In this episode, we turn our attention to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In Part One, we heard how Bill scaled Microsoft. Welcome back to Part Two of our landmark episode with Bill Gates, on how to accelerate history. REID HOFFMAN: Hi listeners, it’s your host Reid Hoffman. Secondly, Bill Gates donated 38 million dollars for the building of a computer institute at Stanford University.Chapter 1: Step in on a neglected opportunity Some years back, he visited Chicago’s Einstein Elementary School and announced grants benefiting Chicago’s schools and museums where he donated a total of $110,000, a bunch of computers, and provided internet connectivity to number of schools. In fact, he is quite giving person when it comes to computers, internet and any kind of funding. His beliefs are so powerful, which have helped him increase his wealth and his monopoly in the industry.īill Gates is not a greedy person. He likes to play the game of Risk and the game of world domination. Bill’s Microsoft is good competition for other software companies and he will continue to stomp out (challenge) the competition until he dies. He does not believe in mere luck or God’s grace, but just hard work and competitiveness. His belief in high intelligence and hard work has put him where he is today. Bill is a visionary person and works very hard to achieve his vision. Microsoft’s vision is “A computer on every desk and Microsoft software on every computer”. Within a year, Bill Gates dropped out from Harvard. Allen kept on pushing Bill for opening a new software company. At the end of Bill’s first year, Allen came close to him so that they could follow some of their ideas. They would often discuss new ideas for future projects and the possibility of starting a business one fine day. Gates and his friend Paul Allen remained in close contact even though they were away from school. After leaving school, he almost lost himself from the world of computers. He spent many long nights in front of the school’s computer and the next day asleep in class. He did well over there, but he couldn’t find it interesting too. He took the standard freshman courses with the exception of signing up for one of Harvard’s toughest mathematics courses. ![]() Upon graduating from Lakeside Bill enrolled in Harvard University in 1973, one of the best universities in the country, He didn’t know what to do, so he enrolled his name for pre-law. The era of Traf-O-Data came to an end when Gates left the college. From this project they earned around $20,000. They developed a small computer to measure traffic flow. As a result of the business deal signed with Information Sciences Inc., the group also became a legal business.īill Gates and his close friend Allen formed a new company of their own, Traf-O-Data. ISI (Information Sciences Inc.) agreed to give them royalties, whenever it made money from any of the group’s program. in which they were selected as programmers. In the next year, they got their first opportunity in Information Sciences Inc. Being in this group, they found a new way to apply their computer skill in university of Washington. Bill Gates and his friends were very much interested in computer and formed “Programmers Group” in late 1968. That was the most important decision in Bill Gate’s life where he was first introduced to computers. From his early days Bill was ambitious, competitive and intelligent. These qualities helped him to attain great position in the profession he chose also Bill was deemed by his peers and his teachers as the smartest kid on campus Bill’s parents came to know their son’s intelligence and decided to enroll him in a private school, known for its intense academic environment. He also believes that if you are intelligent and know how to use your intelligence, you can reach your goals and targets. Bill believed in achieving his goals through hard work.
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