The Once-Homeless Billionaire: My Keys to Success
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Trajan
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I'm going to watch to hear his story but no one can give you "keys to success". Everyone's success is usually the result of a unique set of circumstances.
Bill Gates can't tell you how to be Bill Gates. He was just in the right place at the right time due to circumstances beyond his control.
Bill Gates can't tell you how to be Bill Gates. He was just in the right place at the right time due to circumstances beyond his control.
Hopeofmypeople
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I know his a cac but that shyt is mad inspirational. From being homeless and living in your car to 28yr later being a billionaire. Fortune truly favours the bold, I am going to launch my app this year brehs so wish me luck trying to delve into different avenues and trying social media as that seems to be popping right now.
Hopeofmypeople
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Nope completely disagree it's providing a product that catches on that is key. Bill Gated success isn't down to sheer luck, a model discovered on a train who goes on to succeed is lucky. The man provided a product that changed the world, same with Zuckerberg.
That was it huh?
Ehh... yes and no.
I already know you can't quit from being rejected. The point is he has a company and all his money goes through it. I bet he pays a low tax rate.
Trajan
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Lol he had to benefit from an amazing amount of coincidences in order to provide that product. He didn't create out of thin air. Malcolm Gladwell went into depth in his book Outliers.
- Fam his parents were among Seattle's social and financial elite.
- His mother Mary Maxwell was a board member of First Interstate Bank and Pacific Northwest Bell. She was also on the national board of United Way, along with John Opel, the chief executive officer of IBM who approved the inclusion of MS/DOS with the original IBM PC.
- Bill Gates went to Lakeside, Seattle's most exclusive prep school where tuition in 1967 was $5,000 (Harvard tuition that year was $1760). Typical classmates included the McCaw brothers, who sold the cellular phone licenses they obtained from the U.S. Government to AT&T for $11.5 billion in 1994. When the kids there wanted to use a computer, they got their moms to hold a rummage sale and raise $3,000 to buy time on a DEC PDP-10, the same machine used by computer science researchers at Stanford and MIT.
- By the way, the mother of one of his classmates was like an exec at one of those early tech companies and managed to hustle computers for the school. Probably the only High School in the entire US to have access to computers at that time and Bill Gates went to that school.
- He lived within 10mins walking distance of a Uni which was one of three in the country to have a computer, he would stroll in and practice/play with it.
- He was college age when the computer boom hit in the 70s and was probably one of a few people who knew computers (due to the above factors). If he was born a few years earlier he would'vebeen too old to benefit from this boom...a few years later to young as he would be in High School. You literally had to be in college with the right amount of computer experience in order to benefit.
How many people were college age and had had access to computers at that time? Bearing in mind only MIT, Michigan and one other uni had a computer
- Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder : October 28, 1955
- Bill Joy : SUN Co-Founder November 8, 1954
- Scott McNealy : SUN Co-Founder November 13, 1954
- Steve Jobs : Founder Apple. February 24, 1955
- Eric Schmidt: Google & Novell CEO: April 27 1955
- Paul Allen: Microsoft Founder: January 21, 1953
- Steve Balmer Microsoft Founder: March 24, 1956
- Vinod Khosla SUN Co-Founder January 28, 1955
- Andy Bechtolsheim SUN Co-Founder September 30, 1955
Explain.
Everything is about timing, connections and what can you provide to the situation.Lol he had to benefit from an amazing amount of coincidences in order to provide that product. He didn't create out of thin air. Malcolm Gladwell went into depth in his book Outliers.
- Fam his parents were among Seattle's social and financial elite.
- His mother Mary Maxwell was a board member of First Interstate Bank and Pacific Northwest Bell. She was also on the national board of United Way, along with John Opel, the chief executive officer of IBM who approved the inclusion of MS/DOS with the original IBM PC.
- Bill Gates went to Lakeside, Seattle's most exclusive prep school where tuition in 1967 was $5,000 (Harvard tuition that year was $1760). Typical classmates included the McCaw brothers, who sold the cellular phone licenses they obtained from the U.S. Government to AT&T for $11.5 billion in 1994. When the kids there wanted to use a computer, they got their moms to hold a rummage sale and raise $3,000 to buy time on a DEC PDP-10, the same machine used by computer science researchers at Stanford and MIT.
- By the way, the mother of one of his classmates was like an exec at one of those early tech companies and managed to hustle computers for the school. Probably the only High School in the entire US to have access to computers at that time and Bill Gates went to that school.
- He lived within 10mins walking distance of a Uni which was one of three in the country to have a computer, he would stroll in and practice/play with it.
- He was college age when the computer boom hit in the 70s and was probably one of a few people who knew computers (due to the above factors). If he was born a few years earlier he would'vebeen too old to benefit from this boom...a few years later to young as he would be in High School. You literally had to be in college with the right amount of computer experience in order to benefit.
How many people were college age and had had access to computers at that time? Bearing in mind only MIT, Michigan and one other uni had a computer
- Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder : October 28, 1955
- Bill Joy : SUN Co-Founder November 8, 1954
- Scott McNealy : SUN Co-Founder November 13, 1954
- Steve Jobs : Founder Apple. February 24, 1955
- Eric Schmidt: Google & Novell CEO: April 27 1955
- Paul Allen: Microsoft Founder: January 21, 1953
- Steve Balmer Microsoft Founder: March 24, 1956
- Vinod Khosla SUN Co-Founder January 28, 1955
- Andy Bechtolsheim SUN Co-Founder September 30, 1955
Explain.
AlainLocke
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TransJenner
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Everything is the right place , right time. Nothing else