How Luck Played for Bill Gates

Bill Gates was an eighth standard student and was attending private middle school in Seattle called Lakeside. He benefitted by virtue of  $3,000 investment made by school in a state-of-the-art computer. 13-year-old Bill joined computer club and was instantly hooked. He and a handful of other enthusiastic students racked up hours and hours on the machine, learning how to program through trial and error. It was the beginning of a journey that would propel Gates to astronomical success.

Here’s the stroke of the luck which changed the way where the dumb luck played in his favor as in the decade of 60s and to be precise in the 1960s, very few colleges had computer labs and a middle school with a computer was unheard of. The chances of a 13-year-old having access to a computer were pretty much one-in-a-million. If Lakeside hadn’t purchased a computer, then young Bill might never have discovered his love for computer programming and he never would have started Microsoft.

Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard in 1974 and thus school/college dropouts can learn a lesson or two from him. In I975, he co-founded Microsoft – a computer software company that would eventually make Gates the world’s wealthiest man. He earned the money by masterfully guiding the world into the era of networked personal computers. Today, Gates is no longer the world’s wealthiest, but he’s still worth a healthy US$ 59 billion.

He’s retired from his role as Microsoft’s CEO and instead devotes himself full-time to philanthropy through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. No doubt Bill gates has changed the way people are managing the computers and are increasing productivity which in turns increases the revenue. One can learn a lot from him as his lessons can be equally applied to the stock market and has been aptly titled as Bill gates Stock Market Lessons which is a must read as God willing, you may be similar to him in future.