The below article is from Computer Geek .. You can read the article here or read below . I really find this article worth a read. I can imagine when he say that he will be a millionaire by 31/ With great people there is always greta mission..
When great people make great companies. Courtesy Ram Shriram
Look in to the ancestory.. of Bill Gates and all are succefull people.
Read below...
1. Many books have be written about Bill Gates, Amazon brings up 137,632 results.
2. The first company he founded was Traf-O-Data.
3. Microsoft used to be written "Micro-Soft".
4. His great-grandfather was a lawmaker and mayor, his grandfather a national bank's vice president, and his father a successful lawyer.
5. In 1968 when the first computers were installed in the Lakeside Academy, his grades degraded because he would spend days and nights learning the new device.
6. Gates, Pual Allen and their friends caused the computers in Lakeside Academy to crash because of hacking activity.
7. When he was young he used to rock back and fourth. Today he still does it when he's deep in thought.
8. In Harvard he got bored and passed most of his time programming and playing poker.
9. Gates told his teachers in university he would be a millionaire by age 30
10. Gates turned into a billionaire at age 31.
11. One of his teachers said about him "Bill was an amazing programmer, but a disgusting person".
12. The reckless life in Harvard made him sick during summer 1974 and he quit his studies.
13. His first programming job was in high school making a program that organizes an efficient schedule. He used it to sign up to classes that had the hottest girls and have easy fridays.
14. Gates married his wife, Melinda, on January 1994 in an island in Hawaii which he rented for the wedding.
(translated from themarker.com - links added)
