Feb 16, 2024 · 53m · founders
The Biography of Bill Gates
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This episode examines the early life and career of Bill Gates as chronicled in the biography 'Hard Drive', highlighting his fierce competitiveness, unmatched work ethic, and strategic maneuvers that built Microsoft into a global software powerhouse.
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Computer Center Exchanged Free Time for Lakeside Students Finding System Bugs
“They offered Gates and the other lakeside computer junkies an opportunity to try to crash the system. In exchange, they would get all the free computer time that they wanted.”
13-Year-Old Bill Gates Dug Through Trash for Computer Operating System Notes
“Gates would go through garbage cans so he could poke around for important tidbits of information left behind on the day shift. I'd get the notes out of the trash with coffee grounds on them and study the operating systems.”
Gates Read Historical Biographies When Banned From Computers for Nine Months
“There was at least nine months there when I did nothing with computers. Read he did. With the same kind of commitment he had made to computers, he consumed a number of biographies, Franklin Roosevelt's and Napoleon's among others, to understand how the great f…”
Teenage Bill Gates Predicted He Would Become a Millionaire by 25
“Gates told his friend that he would be a millionaire by the time he turned 30. He told another friend, I'm gonna make my first million by the time I'm 25.”
Bill Gates and Paul Allen's High School Venture Traf-O-Data Grossed $20,000
“The software program turned, turned the data into easily readable traffic flowcharts. They grossed about 20,000 dollars from this.”
Bill Gates Worked Full-Time at Defense Contractor TRW During High School
“Gates received permission to miss part of his senior year so he could work full time at TRW.”