The former employee pointed to Bill Gates’ famous saying ‘I failed some subjects, my friend passed and now he’s a Microsoft engineer and I own Microsoft’ is just a fake

Tram Ho

Bill Gates has been one of the richest billionaires in the world for many years. His story of dropping out of Harvard to set up Microsoft has become an inspiration and motivation for young people cherishing their dreams of starting a business when they were still in school.

Cựu nhân viên chỉ ra câu nói nổi tiếng của Bill Gates Tôi trượt một số môn, bạn tôi thì qua cả và giờ anh ấy làm kỹ sư của Microsoft còn tôi sở hữu Microsoft chỉ là giả mạo - Ảnh 1.

Billionaire Bill Gates.

Many of his quotes and advice have been widely shared by the online community, including: "I failed in some subjects in exam but my friend passed in all, now he's an engineer in Microsoft and I own Microsoft" ( Translation: I failed some subjects, my friend passed and now he's an engineer of Microsoft and I own Microsoft).

This is one of the famous quotes of Microsoft co-founder. However, not long ago, a former Microsoft employee exposed the truth about this saying.

David Lean worked at Microsoft from 1990 to 2009. He said that although he was not always in contact with Bill Gates, after decades of working here, he understood a part of his boss's character.

Here is David's point:

"Of course, Bill Gates has shared a lot of things with the world but I'm sure he won't say anything like that.

First, I only heard Bill Gates compared himself to his only wife, Melinda Gates, whom he said was 'superior to me in many different ways' (kindness, sociability). …).

Cựu nhân viên chỉ ra câu nói nổi tiếng của Bill Gates Tôi trượt một số môn, bạn tôi thì qua cả và giờ anh ấy làm kỹ sư của Microsoft còn tôi sở hữu Microsoft chỉ là giả mạo - Ảnh 2.

Melinda Gates and Bill – Melinda Gates.

He really cares about sharing his profits with those around him. The proof is the generous donation of shares to employees when the company successfully IPO. Many founders just keep to themselves and Bill is different.

Personally, I think Bill is a very simple and modest person. He never claimed that he worked to become the richest man in the world and really didn't like discussing it. Therefore, it is unlikely that he would make a comparison with his friends in a school competition and be happy when that person becomes his employee.

Moreover, Bill is not so stupid in English? When talking about working position somewhere, people mostly use the preposition AT rather than IN? He may not know the foreign language but he will surely never make such a fundamental mistake! ".

Second, he respects education and academic issues. This statement implies no respect for the learning of others. Bill is an avid learner and is always looking for ways to expand his knowledge in many areas. In the same year, he will take 2 vacation days, 1 week each time to go to a quiet shelter and consider the problems.

He once shared his biggest "sin" is to make many people think that dropping out will succeed and become a billionaire. 30 years after dropping out of school, when he was the richest man in the world, Bill was awarded an honorary degree by Harvard. At that time, he said: "Luckily you invite me to speak at the graduation ceremony, if I speak at the career ceremony then probably no graduation will come." This proves that he does not encourage everyone to drop out of school because after all, more or less, having a degree will give you a certain advantage compared to those who do not.

Cựu nhân viên chỉ ra câu nói nổi tiếng của Bill Gates Tôi trượt một số môn, bạn tôi thì qua cả và giờ anh ấy làm kỹ sư của Microsoft còn tôi sở hữu Microsoft chỉ là giả mạo - Ảnh 3.

Young Bill Gates.

Third, Bill scores very well at Harvard. He dropped out of school because he saw Microsoft's development opportunity and it wouldn't exist until he graduated, not because he couldn't keep up the program.

While at Harvard, a math professor called Bill the smartest student I've ever met. This prestigious school is the dream of many people around the world and it is not easy to get here.

Bill applied to Harvard, Yale and Princeton University and was accepted into all 3 universities with many different majors. For Yale, he wanted to study politics, Princeton was a computer engineer and Harvard was mathematics. In addition, he scored an almost absolute score of 1590/1600 on the SAT (assessment of standardized competence widely used for college admission in the US).

Bill was definitely not a failed student at Harvard, but he quit school because he wanted to and focused on Microsoft. In his second year, he developed an algorithm that could solve a wide range of problems.

One story recounts that in elective subjects, he barely learned much, stayed awake only a few nights before the exam, even slept during test hours and still passed the subject with a high score.

After working at Honeywell in the summer of 1974, Bill saw a good opportunity to start a computer software company with longtime friend Paul Allen. He said the decision to leave school with his parents and to make it sound more acceptable, he said he would return to Harvard if Microsoft failed. And then he didn't have a chance to return there after dozens of years and only returned to receive the honor when he became the richest man in the world.

Vikas Verma, a former engineer at Microsoft from 2006 to 2011, agrees with David. He said:

"Bill Gates is humble and never brags about the money he makes. A fact about Microsoft's culture, when he was directly in charge, was that they considered education but that's not all. "Another important factor is the potential of the candidate. Bill takes his staff very seriously, so there is no way he would say such a 'tricky' sentence."

Cựu nhân viên chỉ ra câu nói nổi tiếng của Bill Gates Tôi trượt một số môn, bạn tôi thì qua cả và giờ anh ấy làm kỹ sư của Microsoft còn tôi sở hữu Microsoft chỉ là giả mạo - Ảnh 4.

Bill Gates is a humble and studious person.

Analysis of the two former Microsoft employees on sound quite reasonable. Anyway, whether or not the billionaire really said it or not, it has become a famous saying that bore Bill Gates and has a certain influence on many people in the world.

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Source : Trí Thức Trẻ/Tổng hợp