>A lot of people were born into a similar situation as Gates. Very few achieved what he did.
The question is: Could Gates have achieved what he did had he not been born into a similar situation?
The question is: Could Gates have achieved what he did had he not been born into a similar situation?
I know another child entrepreneur, self-taught programmer who read encyclopedias front to back as a kid... elon musk.
No. But we're talking about having access to that machine in the first place.
I don't begrudge him his wealth even though a bulk of ti comes down to luck. Someone had to end up with the desktop OS monopoly.
So the person born in the current Gates' situation would prolly have achieved what Gates did - given that Gates is who he is because he won the ovarian lottery.
If he had a twin brother he's be, say Larry Ellison or Warren Buffet?
No doubt knowing that daddy is there for you if you fail and that Harvard will take you back is a huge relief and fall back strategy but Gates did make some amazingly good decisions. Some forty years later his company is worth close to $300 Billion and makes over $20 Billion in profit, year after year.