Bill Gates back in the news after his old friend and chief executive of the company, Steve Ballmer, has announced his departure from Microsoft without even knowing an official reason. Many people are calling Gates for the post of Ballmer as CEO, and still not ruling it is unlikely that Gates hold office personally again to be dedicated 100% to its foundation.
It's time to take a look at life, history and grandeur of one of the most successful men in the business world .
Bill Gates was the son of a successful lawyer. Unlike its larger rival in business, Steve Jobs , Gates came from a family of high social class. At age 11, Gates blossomed intellectually, though not as the rest of gifted. Gates was a real headache for their parents to be a mix
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Although no one knows for sure when was the first meeting between these two titans of business, according to the biography by Walter Isaacson, it was in the late 70s when they could have their first meeting and where they began a pretty good relationship, the type "I made it, you offer me .... 'producing all kinds of exchange of ideas, as Steve Jobs was making the first Macintosh and needed a software developer for the Mac.
In 1983 , it emerged the great plan of Bill Gates when he announced his great creative secret Windows . When Jobs learned was when he went mad, then he claimed that Gates stole their idea, copied them to the product and ultimately defrauded them.
It tells the story, according to some testimonies of those present, that Gates initially denied not "stolen" the idea of Apple, ensuring some sources that Gates shrugged and said: "Apple stole from Xerox, so nothing happens if Apple steals Microsoft " .
Microsoft released the Windows market and trading went public in 1986 as a joint venture to be a product which at the time was considered a likely future without passing fashion. Some visionaries studied the company and its prospects and did not hesitate to invest in it. In the next 10 years, Microsoft made more than 10,000 millionaires thanks to the strong appreciation of their
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In 1997 , Apple began to revive, and Gates has invested 150 million in the company. He announced investment in a giant screen, and received boos from the audience.
In 1998 , Microsoft was put on trial for abuse of monopoly in software , in a show trial and showing a picture of Bill Gates over mobster businessman. Gates went from being an admired businessman to become a very hated person in certain groups.
Some say, that he burned emotionally Bill Gates, and it was not the same. In the year 2008 became the non-executive chairman of Microsoft in an attempt to break away from the daily life of the company, although the competition that no mistake that Microsoft remains the company Gates and remain warns into account their opinions and advice.
In 2004 , Gates joined the board of Berkshire Hathaway , the investment company headed by investor Warren Buffett , a person who came to inspire Gates again in a few moments when I thought I could not learn anything more. ( Bill Gates: 3 things I learned from Warren Buffett ) Finally have become very good