Re:If you're busy, you're doing something wrong (2011)
by hadlock on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:57AM
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Bill Gates' parents were board members at other companies with moderate influence in the local Seattle business community. There is a good chance that he would have been more successful than most people at even just selling office supplies due to his connections. It's not like he grew up in the rough part of town and got in to Harvard through a hardship scholarship.
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Re:If you're busy, you're doing something wrong (2011)
by close04 on Friday November 15, 2019 @04:23AM
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Indeed it was Bill Gates' mother, Mary, who had the clout to introduce Bill to IBM's the president, chairman and CEO John Opel while both serving on the board of United Way of America. This paved the way for Microsoft's deal with IBM.
I've heard so many way below average dropouts from nameless universities or high-schools justify their "performance" by mentioning how Bill Gates was also a dropout without realizing that Gates dropped out of Harvard (!) after already having an excellent education and most likely being above average at all relevant topics for his future career.
The myth isn't that Gates is a dropout but that he's the average dropout, or that being a dropout is somehow a signal of greater things to come.
This comic makes for an eye opening read for many [0]. (Edit: updated link, thanks, it must have been a case of copy/pasta).
[0] https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/373065/the-pencilswo...
Re:If you're busy, you're doing something wrong (2011)
by nereye on Friday November 15, 2019 @04:48AM
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To see the full cartoon:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/373065/the-pencilswo...
Re:If you're busy, you're doing something wrong (2011)
by senderista on Friday November 15, 2019 @04:53AM
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Bill Gates was both extremely privileged and an intellectual prodigy.