THE REAL BILL GATES
He’s the most famous businessman in the would, dominating the computer revolution. Yet we know little about him as a person. Here’s an intimate look at one of the most important figures of our era.
When Bill Gates was 11, he was at war with his mother Mary. She would call him to dinner and he wouldn’t respond. What are you doing? She once demanded over the intercom. A lot of computer companies struggle to compete with William Henry Gates III. In the 22 years since he left Harvard to start what would later be known as Microsoft Corporation. Gates, 41, has amassed a fortune worth more than $20 billion. But the world’s richest person is more than that. He is the Edison and Ford of our age.
FAST CARS TO BABY TALK:- In 1980 Gates lured Ballmer, then attending business school at Stanford, to Microsoft. I always knew I would have close business associates like Ballmer and several of the other top people at Microsoft and that we would stick together and grow together no matter what happened. Gates says.
During Ghats ’s bachelor years in the early 80, he, Ballmer and other friends would dine out; go to movies and play advised forms of trivia.
CUTTHROAT INSTINCTS
Gates runs his company mainly through three methods. Day and night, he bats out e-mail messages, often chuckling as he dispatches them. Every month or so, he meets with a top management group. Most important 70 percent of his schedule, by his calculation he holds two or three small meeting a day with teams working on company products.
KIPING SCORE:- He hopes to run Microsoft for another ten years, he says, giving his money away. He says he plans to distribute 95 percent of his wealth, He will spend time thinking about the impact his philanthropy can have Buffet says. He is too imaginative to do conventional gifts. Already he’s given $34 million to the University of Washington
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