On May 4, 2021, Bill and Melinda Gates announced their divorce.
The two have been married for 27 years, and at the same time said that they “can no longer let each other grow and progress, so choose to end the marriage”.
I can only say that poverty limits my imagination, people even divorce reasons are so lofty.
With the east wind of Bill Gates’ divorce, let’s take a look at the “plundered life” and the “powerful backing group” behind it, and understand the mystery of his becoming the richest man in the world.
I. “Winning in the womb” of Bill Gates
Bill Gates, born in Seattle in October 1955, is a little boy who “won in the womb”.
Bill Gates’ maternal grandfather, a former president of a national bank, had powerful connections and wealth.
Bill Gates’ mother, Mary Gates, became a director of the University of Washington, a director of a bank, and the president of United Way International, a beautiful, intelligent, and resourceful woman.
With such a maternal grandfather’s family, Bill Gates’ father was not bad either, being an excellent lawyer.
In the early days of Bill Gates’ business, his father provided a lot of legal help before giving Bill Gates the capital to start his business.
After Bill Gates made his fortune, his father set up the “Gates Law Firm”, which is one of the top ten law firms in the world.
As a young boy who “won in the womb”, Bill Gates did not know it as a child and liked to live in his own world.
Bill Gates was very active and was constantly wiggling around in his cradle, not stopping for a moment.
When he was a little older, Bill Gates added problems such as sloppiness, dawdling and bad temper, which often made the family anxious and angry.
Bill Gates’ room was always in a mess; the socks on his feet were often inconsistent in color; sometimes he even hung his shoes around his neck, enjoying himself and not listening to his parents.
After school, Bill Gates was obsessed with reading books, seldom talking, not contacting people, not going out for days at a time, just to understand the contents of a book.
If his mother disciplined him too much, he would yell at her, sometimes even ranting and swearing.
The father, of course, would not ignore it, after taking a lockdown, throwing cold water, after the war of words, or defeated, decided to take his son to see a psychiatrist.
After the doctor’s diagnosis, Bill Gates was diagnosed with “autism”, the only way to treat it is to get in touch with people, learn to communicate with people, and slowly open his heart.
So the lawyer’s father would bring Bill Gates to any party or charity event; sometimes he would be a spectator, sometimes he would be a greeter; in general, he would not be left idle.
His mother took him to family gatherings, community events, charity auctions, summer camps, etc., slowly curing Bill Gates of his autism.
Despite being cured of autism, Bill Gates’ personality is still somewhat of a “two-faced person”.
He has a wise mind, a lot of energy and a keen sense of judgment, but his words are occasionally vulgar and unreasonable, arrogant and indifferent, which has a lot to do with his childhood personality.
Bill Gates is very smart, following his father to attend side meetings, he can remember the legal terms of the day; following his mother to charity events, he can know how to use charity to achieve maximum benefit.
As he himself said: I am doing charity, but charity in my eyes is also a business.
Perhaps, this is the secret of his later becoming the “world’s best”.
Bill Gates is a child, but also a schoolmaster
Bill Gates attends one of Seattle’s top private schools for boys, which supports children’s interests and welcomes their own opinions.
Paul Allen is one of the rich and famous students with a strong background.
Paul Allen was Bill Gates’s schoolmate, and it is said that the two did not cross paths, but the two had a common hobby of “researching computers”, and they became good friends.
In 1968, at the age of 13, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, eyeing the school’s PDP-10 computer, the two began to learn programming, but also began to accompany the “rich life road”.
Soon after, the two found a vulnerability in the PDP-10 computer software, but also wrote a special report to the computer company.
After verification, the company listened to the two children’s views, but also gave them a substantial reward.
When Bill Gates was 15 years old, he wrote a class schedule scheduling software for his school and was also paid $4,200.
Although he enjoyed fiddling with computers, Bill Gates also always had top grades.
In 1973, Bill Gates entered Harvard University with a score of 10 points below perfect and met another computer whiz: Steve Powellmer.
Steve Powellmer is also a rich boy, has been a math competition master, not only got the Harvard University math department scholarship, but also with a perfect score to enter Harvard, than the good brother Bill Gates are bull X.
Many years later, Bill Gates invited Steve Powellmer to join the incubator of Microsoft, the two of them all the way to upgrade the fight, played the unrivaled Microsoft mountain.
Bill Gates reigned as the world’s richest man for 13 years, and Steve Powellmer was not bad, having been ranked 6th, 9th and 14th for many years, also a legendary figure.
From his parents to his classmates, Bill Gates has been a great success, with a strong “backing group” standing behind him, which has also made his brilliant life.
Bill Gates’ first “plunder”
When Bill Gates contacted with his new friend Steve Powellmer, he did not forget his old friend Paul Allen.
At that time, Paul Allen was working as a programmer in a computer company called “Sweetwell” in Boston, and he often had access to new news in the industry and met with Bill Gates from time to time.
In the spring of 1975, the magazine Popular Electronics said that a guy named Ed Roberts had invented an Altair 8080 microcomputer.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen immediately saw a business opportunity and immediately called Ed Roberts and said, “We can develop the Basic language (“Beginner’s Common Symbolic Instruction Code”) for the Altair.”
At first, Ed Roberts didn’t believe the two brats, but after just 32 days, Bill Gates and Paul Allen ported the Basic language to the PC and became Ed Roberts’ partners.
Ed Roberts ran a company called MITS, which had long been in trouble and managed to turn around because of Bill Gates and Paul’s software.
However, when signing the contract with MITS, Bill Gates kept an eye out.
He did not sell the software to MITS, but marked “10 years, MITS can use and transfer the Basic and source code worldwide”.
The deal made Bill Gates and Paul Allen $180,000, and their fame, and the development of the Basic language also became famous.
With the money, Bill Gates’ back was also hardened, and he and Paul Allen then co-founded Microsoft, which became the world’s pioneer in PC software development.
Unexpectedly, Ed Roberts was not good at business, and there was a huge personnel fluctuation within MITS, and he had to sell the company.
The buying company argued that “Bill Gates’ Basic language was included in the deal”, but Bill Gates thought otherwise, and the two finally went to arbitration.
Bill Gates hired his father and his legal team, and won the case with a lot of fighting, gaining fame and $180,000 and not losing his software.
After the lawsuit, Ed Roberts has been unconvinced that “they were betrayed, when it was clear that the ownership of the software, but now it has become the right to use, really bad luck”!
Although Bill Gates and MITS eventually turned against each other, but it is undeniable that MITS laid the foundation of Bill Gates and Paul Allen’s business continental position, so that they found the first bucket of gold in life.
Fourth, because of his mother’s introduction, and IBM reached cooperation
After regaining the right to use the Basic language, Bill Gates bid $500 and began to sell it at an explicit price.
However, the Basic program was not written by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, but invented by the great programmer Gary Kildare.
Gary Kildare was a thoughtful programmer who wrote the Basic program not to make money, but for interest.
Unexpectedly, Bill Gates and Paul Allen got it, slightly altered, it was used in the PC, but also earned a large sum of money.
Bill Gates with this “slightly modified model” to earn money, although also tried to develop their own software, but all ended in failure.
In 1980, Bill Gates learned from his mother, Mary Gates, that IBM was going to develop an operating system for PCs, and his heart immediately became excited.
As mentioned above, Mary Gates was the president of the United Way International, where she met John Eccles, the CEO of IBM.
Subsequently, Bill Gates hitched this relationship and got the opportunity to work with IBM.
In order to quickly complete the task, Bill Gates came up with the “imitation + change” method, and also invited Harvard alumnus Steve Powellmer to join in the big business.
Bill Gates first bought an operating system called QDOS for $50,000, improved it slightly, renamed the product DOS, and then licensed it to IBM.
The ants stood on the shoulders of giants, and naturally became giants.
V. Using social influence and money to buy out new technology
In August 1981, IBM PC was introduced and instantly became a world sensation, reaching a revenue generation of $4 billion in just 3 years.
Bill Gates’ DOS system also sizzled up and was subsequently licensed to more than 50 hardware manufacturers, making a fortune.
Until 1985, Microsoft also made a profit of $2 billion in licensing fees on operating systems.
In the following years, Bill Gates took advantage of the strong market and money power to repeatedly perform the “star-sucking” method, annexing many small companies with new technologies and pocketing their products for subsequent development.
Windows, for example, is one of them.
Windows was originally the technology of Xerox and Apple, and Bill Gates developed subsequent extensions, resulting in Windows versions 1.01-1.04.
(PS: Apple took exception to Microsoft’s actions and sued Microsoft for copyright infringement, but eventually lost.)
However, there were always more or less problems with some of the earlier versions, and Microsoft was constantly improving various problems until it got Windows 95, when most of the problems were really solved.
In 1986, Microsoft went public on NASDAQ and its stock price doubled six times in one year; the following year, Bill Gates, at the age of 31, appeared on the Forbes list of the world’s richest people.
Subsequently, no one could stop Microsoft, and it sped all the way to become the uncrowned king of the world’s software industry, wrapped in the wind of the times (TV series).
Six, Bill Gates’s marriage and best friends
Throughout the entrepreneurial process, Bill Gates’ proactive and aggressive personality has also made his future.
In love, his aggressive personality, continues to play a positive role.
Melinda was born in 1964 to a middle-class family, but her father said, “You must go to college, and I will pay for whatever college you go to.
Because of this goal, Melinda worked hard and was known as a “cute and charming girl” when she was in high school, surrounded by many suitors.
Eventually, Melinda went to Duke University and spent five years getting her MBA in computer science.
After graduation, her intended company was IBM, but the company disliked her as a novice and recommended her to Microsoft.
In 1987, at the age of 22, Melin reached the marketing manager of Microsoft, and was the only woman in the company.
A little bit of red in the middle of a million leaves always attracts more people’s attention.
Once, Melinda followed the company on a business trip and had the pleasure of meeting Bill Gates, and they had an interesting chat.
After the business trip, Melinda met Bill Gates in the underground parking lot several times in a row, each time chatting for a while and slowly getting familiar with it.
Unbeknownst to her, Melinda had a boyfriend at this time, and the two had a very close relationship, meeting weekly.
But Bill Gates did not care, and continued to play his predatory nature, and launched an aggressive pursuit of Melinda.
But Melinda’s mother thought “falling in love with a CEO is a bad thing” and did not approve of her daughter’s relationship with Bill Gates.
But Bill Gates is too good, how can a woman not be moved? Melinda was no exception.
In 1994, the two held a grand wedding.
It is reported that the wedding scene on that day, there are six billionaires, countless millionaires, became the most sensational topic at that time.
After the marriage, Melinda gave birth to three children for Bill Gates and gave him tremendous support.
In Bill Gates’ eyes, Melinda was a gentle sheep, putting up with blackmail after blackmail, his “special friendship” with his ex-lover Ann Wimblett, and his body that didn’t shower for days, making him the “best mate”.
Melinda, on the other hand, has become a full-time wife since the birth of her first child, and the only opportunity she has to stand in front of the stage is to do charity work.
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