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Bill Gates: Microsoft's Beginnings | Colossus®

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David Senra is the host of Founders, where he studies history's greatest entrepreneurs. This is what he learned from rereading Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace and Jim Erickson.

Introduction This is not a book about computers. It is a story about people, a remarkable collection of individuals led by one man, Bill Gates, whose drive, genius, vision, and entrepreneurial spirit created one of the great success stories in the history of American business. At 35 years old, Gates is at the pinnacle of his young career. Microsoft, the company that he and Paul Allen had founded 16 years earlier, had become the first software company in history to sell more than $1 billion worth of products in a single year. Gates was the undisputed mastermind of that success. His company's as

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