Founders: #290 Bill Gates

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What I learned from rereading Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace and Jim Erickson. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes ---- Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best and listen to episode 292 The Business of Gaming with Mitch Lasky and 293 David Senra Passion and Pain ! ---- Gates read the encyclopedia from beginning to end when he was only seven or eight years old. Gates had an obsessive personality and a compulsive need to be the best. Everything Bill did, he did to the max. What he did always went well, well beyond everyone else. You want to maneuver yourself into doing something in which you have an intense interest. — Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger. Gates devoured everything he could get his hands on concerning computers and how to communicate with them, often teaching himself as he went. A young man with no money and tons of enthusiasm. — The Dream of Solomeo: My Life and the Idea of Humanistic Capitalism by Brunello Cucinelli. (Founders #289) He consumed biographies to understand how the great figures of h

[00:00:00] 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 was 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 a billion dollars worth of products in a single year. Gates was the undisputed mastermind of that success. His…

Founders: #290 Bill Gates

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