Posted on 01/27/2025 6:07:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
He frequently failed at school, so how did the ‘weirdo’ teenager Bill Gates go on to found Microsoft and become a billionaire by 31? He talks about his memoir, Source Code — and what happened when he met Donald Trump last month
‘When Kent died, I didn’t know who to sit next to at lunch any more,” Bill Gates tells me. “He was my best friend. We spent hours writing code, working out whether we wanted to be an ambassador, a general or a scientist. We used to scour the biographies of famous men and later CEOs and wonder what it would be like to have $15 million, whether you could even stuff that many notes in a car. We’d read Fortune magazine to get tips on how to succeed. He helped give me direction. Then, suddenly, he was gone. I thought, ‘I am alone now,’ which was hard. I wasn’t thinking I needed to live for the two of us. But why was I the one who got to go forward?”
The two nerdy, awkward kids in the school, tall Kent with his briefcase, spindly Bill with his squeaky voice, had formed a strong bond. Kent Evans had been on a climbing trip at the weekend, promising to call when he returned. “I still know his number off by heart and remember the moment when the headmaster rang to tell me that he had died. He said there had been an accident. Kent had fallen. A helicopter search and rescue team had picked him up and transported him to a hospital. I waited for him to tell me when I could go visit him. ‘Unfortunately, Bill, he didn’t make it. Kent died last night,’ he told me. I have no memory of hanging up the phone.” At his memorial,...
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Certainly a lot of Bill Gates rehabilitation articles lately. Is another virus about to be launched?
I despise Bill Gates and what he stands for.
Hey Gates, I don’t care!
https://youtu.be/OoTbXu1qnbc?si=V3GneORj8uO3KqnY
,,, a need to appear human. The publicists need to do better.
In the early years, Microsoft ripped off hundreds of programmers, stealing their ideas or code to incorporate into DOS. He’s always been a their at heart.
Considering that he stole the code to DOS....
It wasn’t his own invention.
You barely beat me to it.
He is a crook and a fraud.
From what I know Melinda had good reason to divorce him.
I live near where his house is - although I don’t think he spends time here anymore.
I still know the vin number for my first car but I’ve never been ‘successful’ - I’ve been salaried all my life.
He ripped off CPM to make DOS IIRC.
Bill Gates can FOAD.
“ and remember the moment when the headmaster rang to tell me ”
The headmaster?
Rang?
No American talks like that.
Gates was selected.
Just like Zuck.
And Jobs.
He met Paul Allen, let Paul do the heavy coding, and then backstabbed him when Paul first got cancer in the 1980s and harassed him enough for not working hard enough during chemo that Allen finally accepted a buyout.
Allen writes about it in his autobiography. Bill Gates is an awful person, definitely a sociopath, and quite possibly a psychopath.
Bill Gates started the whole H-1B import tech workers thing. He did not want to pay US workers decent wages and is the FIRST CHEAP LABOR WHORE OF AMERICA. He is a real POS. Tight wad Billionaire traitor who made second rate software and products.
Yep!
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