These four stories reveal the truth of working with Gates

Microsoft co-founder and world richest man Bill? Bill Gates is recognized as one of the world's greatest charbs.

But Gates was not the start as a charity.

In Microsoft's 39 years, Gates's public image has undergone tremendous changes. At first, he was considered to be an outstanding but annoying technical innovator. Then he is an outstanding but grumpy CEO. Later, he was a heartless businessman accused by the Ministry of Justice. Later, he was a visionary technical expert who occasionally emailed his successor Steve? Steve Ballmer lost his temper.

After all that, he became a full-time charity dedicated to treating global polio and malaria patients and helping children from poor families who are not well educated.

For many years, Microsoft employees and others have known some stories of gates in their early stages of entrepreneurship. These stories have been confirmed by Quora.

Story from Brad, former vice president of Microsoft

Brad? Brad Silverberg was once a senior vice president of Microsoft and worked in Microsoft from 1990 to 1999.

Here is a story from Brad:

Shortly after I joined Microsoft in 1990, I flew from Seattle to New York with several members from the bill and Windows teams to attend customer meetings. At that time, windows was launched soon. At that time, Microsoft was already a well-known and prosperous company, but it had a company policy that everyone could only take two seats on a plane trip. Bill, like us, is also sitting in the second region, and is sitting in a seat between us. He was not at ease with this. He has been reading books throughout the flight. At that time, he was not as well-known as the world now, so no one bothered him. Therefore, we have no trouble traveling with him.

This leaves a deep impression on me. As a new employee of Microsoft, I saw Bill set an example.

Now, Gates will no longer be in the second round. He owns his own plane and calls it "Guilty Pleasure )."

Story from Microsoft engineer Polski

Ben? Ben rodda shared a post on Quora from Jol? A story from the blog of Joel Spolsky in 2006.

Polski worked at Microsoft in, and Microsoft had only 5 thousand employees at that time. (There are about 0.11 million employees now .)

Polski redesigned a function of Excel. This function is called a macro, which allows users to write programs for excel. He created something called EXCEL basic. Excel basic eventually becomes the popular programming language Visual Basic.

Polski said:

"In those days, we often hold a review meeting called billg. At the billg conference, basically every major feature of the software will get Bill? Gates commented.

At the billg review meeting of my software ...... One of my team is responsible for recording the number of times Bill says "F. "F" means "fail ". For a software, the less "F" said, the better the design of the software.

"Four times" said the recorder. Everyone shouted, "Wow, this is the least number of times I remember. Bill became more and more gentle later ." Bill was 36 years old.

Later, I got an explanation. "Bill didn't really want to review your design, but he just wanted to make sure you were in control of it. According to his consistent standards, he will raise more and more difficult questions until you admit that you do not know. Then he can scold you for being unprepared. What if you can answer the most difficult question he asked? No one knows. Because no one has ever done this.

...... This is a good thing. Bill? Gates is a surprising technical expert ....... If he trusts your capabilities, he will not intervene in your software design. But you cannot talk to him for a moment, because he is a programmer and a real programmer.

The story of Mary, a famous Microsoft blog author

Famous Microsoft blog author Mary? Joe? Mary Jo Foley interviewed bill? Gates made five interviews, one of which was John?, editor-in-chief of PC week? Dodge (John Dodge) went with him.

During the interview, Gates kept himself in the bathroom. She posted the video of this interview online.

"This is an interesting story. At that time, I interviewed bill at the COMDEX Conference (a large-scale computer industry conference. I am with John? Dodge went with him. John's interview style is completely different from mine. He is one of the best editors I have ever seen, but his interview style is to throw eggs at the interviewees. He really stabbed gates. This is a stupid thing.

Gates are getting angry. He stood up and walked into the bathroom, unwilling to come out. He said, "If John doesn't apologize, I won't come out ." So John went to the door and said, "sorry ." Then Bill came out.

...... Bill? Gates is different from today. Bill? Gates really changed when he gave birth to a child. He used to be a typical and reckless technical genius. Then he became humanized. So many people are surprised when I tell these early stories to others.

Fourth story

Gates has become more human? The following story shows this point. Gates told this story in Reddit's "Ask-me-anything" Interactive activity this year.

A Reddit user asked GATES:

"I just want to know what unexpected things do you like to do ?"

Gates replied: I wash dishes every night. Others regard dishwashing as a reluctant task, but I like the way I wash dishes.

These four stories reveal the truth of working with Gates