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A look back and a wait with one of the most prosperous technological entrepreneurs of our time.
With Microsoft (Msft) Go 50 this year and a newly released book on his life called “Source Code: My Beguning”, it is not surprising that many want to look more closely what makes Bill Gates tick.
It is a life of life, 69 years old, sharing “source code”, which recounts his middle class of middle class superior to Seattle until the beginning of Microsoft in 1975 alongside the friend and co-founder Paul Allen. The book has some stories that could be a surprise for Microsoft investors.
“Yes, that’s right,” Gates to Yahoo Finance Executive Reditor told Yahoo Finance Brian Sozzi on Opening offer Podcast when asked if an older allen gave the drugs to teen as adolescence to younger doors.
Gates added: “Paul was responsible for all kinds of things. I mean, my first time I get drunk, the first time I smoked marijuana. You know, he has somehow had a stroke of Pied to see my kind of high energy and you know how it could be influenced.
In the source code, he attributes to his very favorable parents, Mary and Bill Sr. – in particular his super organized mother and focused on objectives – for a large part of his success.
“If you had to choose a person who shaped me in my desire to please and succeed, it is absolutely my mother,” he said. “My parents were both incredible, but my mother was always telling me to repair my ways and get dressed and be on time.”
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Him and Allen – died in 2018 from non -Hodgkin’s lymphoma – have seen a lot of success at Microsoft, which continues to innovate in a highly competitive technological landscape.
Gates says he is happy to see the company, now led by the CEO Satya NadellaAggressively invest in AI and work in close collaboration with the key partner Openai.
“I am delighted that Microsoft makes these investments,” said Gates. “But there is a lot of uncertainty there. In the meantime, AI stuff, which improve at a very fast pace. In a sense, it is more predictable than out of the three to five years, it will become extremely powerful. »»
Microsoft is not the only adjacent gates entity to celebrate a striking birthday this year. His non -profit organization, The Gates Foundation, will be 25 years old.
Its objectives and its mission often surround public health, including the eradication of diseases and the distribution of vaccines. Health initiatives such as vaccines are currently under a microscope with the Trump administration and its choice to direct health and social services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but Gates comforts himself in the foundation file.