![]() On his blog Joel on Software, Spolsky recalls the first time he had a face-to-face product spec review with Gates, in 1992. Spolsky was a program manager assigned to the Excel product line at Microsoft in the 1990s. Bill was more flexible."Īnother anecdote comes from entrepreneur and blogger Joel Spolsky, the founder of StackExchange and Fog Creek Software. "I'd been taught that a deal was a deal and your word was your bond. But Bill had another idea," Allen writes. "I'd assumed that our partnership would be a 50-50 proposition. In his memoir, the Seattle Seahawks owner writes that Gates seemed to thrive on conflict, always pressed for advantage, and even schemed to dilute Allen's stake in the company when Allen was ill with Hodgkin's disease. He was even pretty mean to his one-time business partner, Paul Allen. He dressed down employees in public, hurled sarcasm at rivals, and would reportedly troll around Microsoft's parking lots on weekends to see which employees were working overtime. ![]() But the soft, cuddly Bill Gates of today hardly would be recognizable to veterans of the tech industry who either worked for-or competed against-Gates during his prime company-building years in the late 1980s and 1990s.īack then, Gates was famously the office bully. Microsoft founder Bill Gates turns 60 today and most of the coverage has focused on his ground-breaking work as a philanthropist, promoting public health and other important causes throughout the world. ![]()
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