Becoming the youngest self-made billionaire in your time isn’t a joke and Bill Gates made that history. It is no doubt that Bill Gates was a cool technological guy as well as a very impressive business man. It takes someone with proper knowledge in calculation, management and sales to attain such title at a very young age. Although he was a self-made billionaire at the age of 31, he sold his first software program at the age of 17 for $4200.
Bill grew in his entrepreneurial skills and built the first operating system for IBM first personal computer in 1980. Bill Gates was very keen to being successful and this helped him in building Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen. When Microsoft went public, the company sold $61 million dollars in shares to the public. Bill Gates in the year 1995 released the Windows 95. This was the beginning of Bill’s billionaire journey and since then he has been among the world’s richest men. He was Forbes richest man for over 17 years.
Bill Gates has been able to earn himself the title of being the pioneer of the personal computer revolution and the second richest man in the world and the most generous philanthropist in the world giving over $40 Billion. He didn’t make this title by sleeping all day or daydreaming rather, he took a few step into making success. Let me share a few with you;
Bill never saw his business as risky, rather he saved the energy he would have used to think of such into enjoying and innovating his company. He believed in his dream and his company. He got people who could take risk as an excitement into his team and not just anyone. He believes in his work and work very hard having his calendar filled with no gaps.
Although it took Bill Gates a lot of time to get recognition but the ability to stick to the idea of Microsoft was key. Even when IBM didn’t support it, it took patience for Microsoft to take over the operating system niche. Becoming Bill Gates can be a very difficult task but it can be attained.