i was wondering that people like bill gates,paul allen,steve jobs were successful?

Question

bill gates started the company when he was very young.how did he do that.a lot of knowledge is necessary for it did these guys know all about computers from 3d art to programming from electronics to etc do they know everything and did they have a thorough knowledge in all the fields of computers or did they focus on only one part software and hardware.studying many books would take a lot of time how did they become rich when they were young what is the mystery behind it

Answer 1

These men used their technological knowledge to create a product that would be in high demand (even before people knew of it). Anyone can say "if you're truly passionate at what you do, you'll make loads of money from it", but it's such a cliche. The key to their success was knowing what people wanted.

Answer 2

Actually when Bill Gates licensed IBM the Operating System that he "created" he actually didn't have anything written in code. He actually bought the original OS from some company and then changed it a little and gave it to IBM on a non-exclusive license which really gave him huge leverage on the computer industry.

However, Bill Gates did what he loved which was computer science. Additionally, he had a vision that even IBM did not realize until it was too late. He knew that the Personal Computer (PC) market would take off and IBM did not see that.

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Steve Wozniak built a computer from scratch for his own use and then Steve Jobs convinced him that there's a market for it. After that they went on to market and get investment for their development and started Apple Computers Inc. However, Steve Wozniak does not work for Apple Inc. anymore.

However, the moral is that they all did what they loved and went on to becoming incredibly successful. Many times the cofounders had little or no idea of what they were getting into. Not in these cases but in other stories.

Talking about 3D art to programming and electronics these some of these concepts were invented during their time either by laboratories they licensed technology from (in the case of the Graphical User Interface and the mouse) or they invented them.

So don't let the lack of knowledge hold you back just stay in something you enjoy and everything will fall in place.

Answer 3

Gates was a nerd in high school. He went to the lakeside (private) high school in the northern part of Seattle. I have a friend who knew him then.

What all these guys have in common was the guts to go for it. Their technology wasn't earth shattering at the time. I was in college when the build it yourself Apple hit the market, I remember thinking - who the hell would want this? It's useless. Couldn't even play games. Wang had a far superior word processor.

Back in the day when MS-DOS was developed we used to study operating system development in college. All Gates/Allen did was commercialize a simple operating system based on reference operating systems that were already available at any university. IBM developed the hardware, not Gates/Allen. To this day you can go to Intel and get a reference design for their latest CPU. That is all you get from Dell/HP etc..

At the time this occurred, the state of the art microprocessor was a 4 bit Motorola, I was in engineering school then, we used to build simple computers using toggle switches to program it.

Largely what Gates/Allen did was sell something that sort of worked and based on the success of the "open" IBM PC it took off from there.

Jobs is the "salesman" side of Apple. Wozniak was the technical brains behind Apple. The operating system for the Apple was borrowed from Xerox. After Wozniak left, Jobs just hired guys from across the street at Stanford to do the engineering.

At the time these guys did this, there was virtually no computer market, outside of mainframes. They more or less invented it.

Answer 4

they were around at the birth of home computing, and rode the wave because they had an understanding of the technology - they had a natural love of it.

when the names you listed got into the game it was a fish-bowl in terms of competition, and with cheaper home computers kids in bedrooms could do things that previously only huge companies could.

nowadays everybody does computers.

also computers back in the late 70s and 80s were REALLY basic in comparison to the modern day pc, both in terms of what could be achieved with hardware AND software.

if there are very few people doing something at the time then that's a distinct advantage in getting a head start - bill gates used his business sense to buy an existing operating system then to repackage it and try to get companies to buy it from him. obviously it worked and he got his foot in the door.

the rest of his billions were earned mostly by bankrupting or buying out microsoft's competitors to eliminate the competition, but that's another story...

so as an overview, when they got started computers were basic and they knew how to work and program them so they had a head start. after being established in the industry and as technology changed they took on more staff and created specialist divisions to deal with operating systems, games, applications, hardware etc.

you couldn't really do that nowadays, there's too much competition and most software startups are dead within 3 years unless they come up with something truly revolutionary like google, myspace, whatever.

everything's gradual. in the beginning there was no 3d anything. :)

Answer 5

There is no mystery, they found something they loved and stuck with it. Bill Gates started a programming club in high school and spent as much time learning about them as he could and dreamed of making them better. I am 14 years old and know a lot about computers, all from experience, I have been interested in them since i was seven years old, and kept working and I know a lot, just from using one.