You all know Bill Gates. When you hear that name you think “Billionaire” or “Lucky,” but you haven’t really looked deep enough. Bill is more than a rich, lucky businessman. He has worked very hard to get where he is today. When he was in college, he thought long and hard about a problem. And then he thought of how to fix it.
Bill Gates is an inventor. He did what all inventors do: they think of a problem, and invent a way to make it better or easier. Bill thought of computers, how they didn’t do anything that an ordinary person could use them for. So Bill invented software for a computer. All of a sudden, people could make spreadsheets to handle calculations! They could type things just like a type- writer except with perfect erasing tools!
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And Bill Gates is that, also. Not only is he good at business, he is good at marketing and advertising. That is how he was able to get some of the smartest minds in the United States to join his entrepre- neurial escapade, Microsoft. That good business mind of Bill’s soon had his company selling a whole lot of this new “software” to people around the United States.
Still, Bill released breakthrough after breakthrough, introducing Windows, a software pro- gram designed to make personal computers even more user friendly. And making billions of dol- lars didn’t stop him. If most people were him, they would probably just leave the company and say, “I don’t need to deal with this anymore; I’m a billionaire!” But Bill Gates stays at Microsoft, even being attacked by lawyers, worrying about other competition, and trying to stay ahead. Business is really war.
Today he still faces a score of problems. People confronting him in anti-trust lawsuits, and other companies trying hard to pull Microsoft down from its “king-of-the-hill” position. Many people still think Bill is so lucky and that he has it easy, but he doesn’t. Money isn’t