World’s second richest man, co founder of Microsoft and philanthropist Bill Gates worked on weekends and never took any day of in the early days of Microsoft. He said that its a part of sacrifices he did to establish his company and to be successful.
During an event on last week, with other business leaders, Bill Gates talked to co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite Julia Hearts about founding a company and his work ethics when he was young and healthy. And how their initial hard work played a role in setting a tone for his company in his 20s.
“Its true that I don’t believe on weekends. I didn’t believed on vacations.”
Reported by TechCrunch.
I did knew everyone’s license plate, that’s why I can tell you over the last month that when their car came from parking and when they leave.
Gates said that he was somewhat relaxed in his 30s but has no regret for the hard work and the initial sacrifices he had done. Bill Gates thought that in the early years of work it’s necessary to do big sacrifices. Specially when you do some engineering stuff that you have to get feasibility.
People can shape the idea of hard work into over worship and mythology. And he will never emphasize on a particular way for your business to reach a flyer and he will not recommend it for everyone
In the same interview with Eventbrite’s Harts, Bill Gates discussed about his biggest mistakes of “Not Going For Android”. He also accepted that not been able to foresee future and not starting a competitor of Apple’s IOS was his $400 billion judgement error.
