Microsoft This month is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and co-founder Bill Gates has sat with the present. CEO Satya NadellaIn all conversations, he opened up about an important misses during the early days of the company when Gates was the CEO himself, and it was reducing importance Government Relations,
“You know, I can tell my little self, see out for the government,” Gates recently said during a podcast that all three CEOs are characteristic, who have led Microsoft in their half -century history. “I was very innocent about not being engaged in Washington, DC, as soon as I should have been.”
This political innocence eventually led a large scale No -confidence case In the 1990s against Microsoft, when US justice department The tech veteran was allegedly becoming a monopoly. The legal battle resulted in 2000 decided that Microsoft had violated the antitrust laws, with an initial order to divide the company into two – although an appeal court later overturned the decision.
Another mistake made as CEO of Bill Gates Microsoft
Gates Washington mistake He did not regret the only regret. He also accepted misconceptions about team building during the early years of Microsoft.
“I definitely thought earlier that engineering skills meant that you would be good in other things. It turned out to be wrong,” Gates accepted. “We really had to build teams in diverse skills, mixed, more mixed than me.”
The billionaire philanthropist first shared advice that he would advise him to give his younger self in the 2017 Reddit to “ask anything” in the session that “smartness is not single-dimensional and is not as important as I thought it had returned.”
Despite these early misconduct, Microsoft Gates has evolved into one of the world’s most valuable companies, led by Microsoft Gates, Steve BalmerAnd the current CEO Satya Nadella. Now a tech beamoth that revolutionized personal computing, stands as a will for his ability to learn from Microsoft’s travel mistakes from startup to Udyog Titan – including early political inspection of gates.
