Bill Gates reflects, in detail, on his early programming career. From a 2010 interview with the Academy of Achievement.
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@thecease69104 жыл бұрын
The media makes it seem like he just dropped out and became a billionaire. I like hearing about the whole background and story.
@icervot4 жыл бұрын
It's worse, he went from dumpster diving to world richest man.
@jameszy124 жыл бұрын
I feel like people want to become rich and famous without doing all the work that comes with it
@DucklengUgly4 жыл бұрын
seems like he probably already had his 10,000 hours in before he hit mid 20s and so much exposure to the early Tech world since he was 16+... Yeah this is not your typical college dropout.
@LazarNevski4 жыл бұрын
Well, yes, it’s called spreading communism.It’s what the media has done since its inception. Why do you think they hate Trump? Or Howard Schulz? Success is unforgivable in this world. You can be anything but successful.
@EmperorKonstantine014 жыл бұрын
Its what happens you steal software and ideas from John George Kemeny
@dave43472 жыл бұрын
Hearing about Bill Gates writing normal applications in his early career is inspiring. He wasn't JUST a genius who wrote machine code and built Windows on his first day as a software developer. He went through the same grimy steps as the rest of us.
@alainportant6412 Жыл бұрын
Especially when his mom (who happened to sit on the IBM board) managed to get him the interview that lead to the MS-DOS contract, she also presented him to Warren Buffet. I am poor and stupid so the Steve Jobs story is more relatable to me than Gate's.
@makita3680 Жыл бұрын
That's what he wants you to think. In reality he bought some nerd's code (DOS) and used it to start his business.
@Foreign.Trade.Exchange Жыл бұрын
@@alainportant6412 !1aa
@TheVisualante11 Жыл бұрын
He did not write windows. He hired the guys from Xerox that wrote the drop down menus in which --Steve Jobs stole to make the Mac. At least Steve Jobs guys figured it out on their own Bill Gates just hired the OG from Xerox and the wrote it on top of DOS.
@S1eepers7 ай бұрын
@@alainportant6412 jobs was an ahole but karma got him
@manojuppala39413 жыл бұрын
This is one of the few videos where bill gates talks about programming rather than philanthropy. Enjoyed it.
@alexanderscott24563 жыл бұрын
I agree with your priorities.
@alainportant6412 Жыл бұрын
@@alexanderscott2456 6:17 he bruteforced his way into Jeffrey Epstein's virgins
@dimensional79153 жыл бұрын
man, not only did he have to learn how to make a payroll system at 15 but he also had to learn how taxes worked at multiple levels to make the system work as needed. that's some crazy stuff
@tom.in.barcelona4 жыл бұрын
imagine being there in 1971 and seeing the first microchip ad. and KNOWING how significant it would be. mindblowing.
@user-dm5kv9gz8h3 жыл бұрын
Yeah working microprocessors at 15 with some years preciously careeer...even he when he stated that didn’t believed it and it’s obvious if you look him.Microprocessors from intel came in 1971 which means you couldn’t have at least in that system all the required information in order to use it and especially a kid under 15 as he said.
@neosapien2474 жыл бұрын
Remember, dropping out of school/college only works if you have brains.
@AymanTravelTransport3 жыл бұрын
And good connections that allow your brains to be recognised properly
@thomas_xsg3 жыл бұрын
Brains,... and the will to succeed, no matter what. I always hate how many people see Bill Gates as this overnight millionaire who basically got lucky with Windows. It couldn't be farther from the truth. Yes, Microsoft made him a lot of money but he is super-smart and worked his ass off day and night to get where he is.
@13thbiosphere3 жыл бұрын
@@thomas_xsg but don't forget that he did steal the dirty operating system.>> dos kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXWsfGB5a8l6odU
@thomas_xsg3 жыл бұрын
@@13thbiosphere thanks for sharing, very interesting. It just goes to show that working hard and having a great idea is not enough. It takes business sense to seize the opportunity and get rich from it. Gates understood that.
@thomas_xsg3 жыл бұрын
@Markus Allen and your proof of this conspiracy theory is... what exactly?
@ExtremelyTastyBread4 жыл бұрын
everytime he says "Paul Allen" I want to see his business card for some reason
@rzalegend4 жыл бұрын
Hopefully plastic covers and axe are ready
@birpstudios66984 жыл бұрын
I bet you his card has a subtle off-white coloring, with a tasteful thickness. Oh my God, it probably even has a watermark…
@dhawalpandey28074 жыл бұрын
paul allen i killed paul allen with an axe to the face his body his dissolving in Hells kitchen
@ACEshredZ4 жыл бұрын
haha yes
@ExtremelyTastyBread3 жыл бұрын
@Dave Hardy reference is to the "business card" scene from the movie American Psycho
@Benjabola4 жыл бұрын
Bill Gates is the alpha nerd.
@GameCyborgCh4 жыл бұрын
*cough cough* linus torvalds *cough cough*
@mookiecookie444 жыл бұрын
@@GameCyborgCh no one cares about your linux ass shit get out of here
@arturoescobar54914 жыл бұрын
Melinda buena buena buena ..no sé si es, pero I think she thinks the same of Miguel Ángel
@thehomiebearfifa35284 жыл бұрын
@@mookiecookie44 everyone cares apparently (all companies use them).
@threalismaradona98994 жыл бұрын
Asshat without bill there would be no linus
@user-fl9ti9ej8g3 жыл бұрын
His story needs to be made into a movie... just incredible.
@Landon_Hughes3 жыл бұрын
There's a Bill Gates Docuseries on Netflix
@Jaygo_Chuggington2 жыл бұрын
He’s a POS, he’s a pedophile and a murderer
@w.heitzman64272 жыл бұрын
Globalist attempts genocide using computers and vaxx is the sum of the plot of his story Not very appealing Think ive seen it before
@sirahmad Жыл бұрын
yeah they should make a movie on it i would excited to watch it
@Gokulandco.1234 Жыл бұрын
Actually he didn't create windows, it was created by his friend. And it was purchased by him , because IBM was needed operating system on those days.thz is fact ,. finally the same purchased software became windows 😁
@binzsta864 жыл бұрын
Bill Gates probably don't remember this but I'm his lost son. It's never too late to catch up on lost times Daddy!!!
@saulocpp4 жыл бұрын
Hey brother, we were looking for you!
@SwapnilSingh4u4 жыл бұрын
lol
@user-pf2wk5zy1m4 жыл бұрын
@@saulocpp I didnt know i had 2 more brothers ! What a surprise !
@theamanpandey10784 жыл бұрын
@Livekraft 4 !!🥺🥺
@MyHaytem4 жыл бұрын
Your name says it all
@MrXperx4 жыл бұрын
Bill should take a look at the youtube recommendation algorithm. It's generally is shit but once in a while, it throws up gems like this.
@EddieSaleh4 жыл бұрын
Recommender systems, do a quick search on that, and you’ll notice that the algorithm has nothing to do with pre-determined programming instructions, but rather fully influenced by your watch history, likes and comments. In other words, this machine learning algorithm is learning from your behavior on KZbin. Do an experiment if you will: keep watching videos about one or a few number of topics, and you’ll start seeing shift in recommendations toward that topic or related ones. Simple as that
@dukenukem57684 жыл бұрын
Won't happen! KZbin is owned by Google, deadly rival of Microsoft.
@muntoonxt4 жыл бұрын
@@dukenukem5768 I mean... Google has published a few publically available research papers on the topic. (Newer DL based approaches.)
@JackIsNotInTheBox4 жыл бұрын
Microsoft doesn't own KZbin lmao
@photopicker4 жыл бұрын
How does a algorithm searching for a gem in a sea of shit will find more gems than shit? The perpetual problem. Discernment across vast oceans of useless crap.
@beefjezos27134 жыл бұрын
Imagine being Bill Gates' partner and being destined for glory but dying in a rock climbing accident while you're still in high school...
@soldez31294 жыл бұрын
Evan Laufman sorry I can’t imagine that
@Kauffman5784 жыл бұрын
He was killed
@Theoss-sl1fk2 жыл бұрын
RIP
@aja7493 жыл бұрын
I can't write 10 lines without StackOverflow and these guys wrote a payroll software in 80's.
@kdub12423 жыл бұрын
I'm so dumb that it often takes me multiple reads and tweaks just to be able to _understand_ many of those StackOverflow solutions. One can feel like a Salieri surrounded by Mozarts.
@aja7493 жыл бұрын
@@kdub1242 Same here mate, funny thing is I am not even a teenager I am 26 with 4 years experience in development still dumb as fuck. I wish I could do something else but I suck even more in everything else.
@litovizija3 жыл бұрын
By the time goes you will always think that why I can't understand that solution and why it's not working, well the answer it's not that u dumb, it's because of how you didn't read the given solution in right direction. And always if you something misunderstandi, youtube is the one who can give a hope to be more successful than school.
@litovizija3 жыл бұрын
I spent 5 years of coding in c++ and a lot of time it's just mistake by mistake never getting right code to finish the solution, but today literally I can do every solution in c++, because of my mistakes. More mistakes you make more dumb you feel, but in reality more mistakes you done more information you get. Everything is easy when you do a lot of mistakes. (:
@artit913 жыл бұрын
I wrote a payroll software 4 years ago in 2 months for the UK HMRC thingy without the knowledge of English and in a programming language I knew nothing about. Also covered with tests and everything. It's not that magic as it seems but they were 15 back then. I remember writing software that helps writing poems ( so I can pick up girls) when I was 15 in Delphi.
@mariagarcia93954 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. Success born from a passion. As a kid he was working on projects most developers don’t even manage as adults. So at an early age he created a high level understanding of negotiation, project management, coding, what value automation adds to daily corporate life and how to implement it. A lot of times you see these parents going crazy having kids in a million activities and they miss what the kid was really interested in. Looks like he was encouraged and coach very early on to follow his passion.
@bbsara0146 Жыл бұрын
yea imagine if bill gates mom forced him to do some stupid activity like to play the saxaphone or piano instead of negotiating all these contracts with the software.
@TheBigdan2104 жыл бұрын
School: “We need to create something called software.” Bill Gates: “Hold my chocolate milk!”
@shubhamchandra92583 жыл бұрын
more like "Don't worry. Daddy's here."
@Ernesto13173 жыл бұрын
For the slaves who love worshipping their gods: He invented computers, he invented internet, he invented everything, even my life. Poor slaves.
@sirahmad Жыл бұрын
@@shubhamchandra9258 lol true
@azzajohnson21234 жыл бұрын
I wish he named the phenomenal programmer that picked apart his work in a very constructive way.
@James_Bowie4 жыл бұрын
Whoever it was, he should have been in charge of Windows development and saved us all from 10,000 known bugs per release.
@Tyrfingr4 жыл бұрын
Linus Torvalds laughs in Finnish
@adianblabla4 жыл бұрын
@@Tyrfingr please tell me a bug-less distro, I have yet to find one.
@Tyrfingr4 жыл бұрын
@@adianblabla Impossible to say. Bugs you encounter with your hardware and software may not be encountered by someone else. There are too many variables to avoid bugs in any OS.
@USUG04 жыл бұрын
that guy has been sleeping with the fishes since 1970!
@rajath19644 жыл бұрын
He did all this between the age of 15-17..OMFG... Epicness
@cardcode83454 жыл бұрын
Rajath C S He could cus his parents were rich and brilliant. Don’t be a fan of man, all this abilities are results of his luck. White Rich American in 1960’s. He’s mother was a brilliant women and dad was rich from generations
@zoeherriot4 жыл бұрын
@@cardcode8345 this is partially true - now - Gates learnt on an old computer that was time shared. He didn't have a computer at home, and he didn't have access to anything you recognise as a PC. So yeah, the reason being rich helped, was that he could go to a school with a computer - and he worked out a way to get access to the time shared computer system (I think he hacked it or found a bug). So yeah - being rich helped... But it kinda leaves out the whole thing that he still had to learn how to program on systems that are infinitely less intuitive to what we are used to now, with no internet. He had to put the time in and to intuit the answers. He still deserves credit - it's not like all the other rich kids at his school also became amazing programmers.they didn't.
@dethswurl1174 жыл бұрын
@@cardcode8345 the definition of jealous lol
@saffron66614 жыл бұрын
@@cardcode8345 nah. just cause you're born into a rich family doesn't been shit. he could easily have become a spoilt rich kid and yet he was blessed with a smart brain and utilized it's capabilities. you don't know what you're talking about. you seem bitter as hell man
@josh12345678924 жыл бұрын
Air Crash man, stop being an idiot and just appreciate this nigga for the computer you’re using rn.
@fapl9854 жыл бұрын
4:49 Well, that escalated quickly
@AlexAnteroLammikko4 жыл бұрын
Just as they were finishing a great idea one of them mysteriously dies in the mountains...........hmmmm
@ufotofu94 жыл бұрын
Right!
@boulerice-archives3 жыл бұрын
@@AlexAnteroLammikko lol yaaaa
@boulerice-archives3 жыл бұрын
Well this project is over, let's get rid of him 😂
@subhajitchakraborty73884 жыл бұрын
Remember he told at age 13-17 he started programming. I am 27 now, when I was 13 I had never seen one until I started engineering at age 19. That's sad about us that when we start exploring, we don't have resources, but definitely I will make sure my kids gets all the facilities which I didn't had during my childhood days.
@cristian30244 жыл бұрын
Not necessarily the resources, like the other person said.. books were always available but in this life not everyone can be super smart, ambitious, skillful, etc. specially at an early age.. so I believe Destiny comes into play with our lives and at this point all we can do is provide our kids the support/advice that we never had.
@tabularasa06064 жыл бұрын
I started programming when I was 14. I didn't even have access to a computer. I basically did my brothers homework.
@emmanuelebitu70074 жыл бұрын
Same here. Quite unfortunate we weren't exposed to these at the very young age.
@LuaanTi3 жыл бұрын
He didn't have a computer at home either :) There's a big difference between waiting for an opportunity to come around and going stalking opportunities through dark alleys.
@howardOKC3 жыл бұрын
@@LuaanTi exactly! Gates succeeded not because he HAD computers, but because he actively seek those opportunities like no tomorrow.
@yoyobu16663 жыл бұрын
This guy seems intelligent 🧠 he seems to have enough skills to start a business
@easilyCoded4 жыл бұрын
Who else is still at “Hello world” level ? 😂 ... don’t give up, one day we shall tell our story like this 😎
It's really amazing hearing his story. I was so interested in programming during age 13-17, and I volunteered to make about 3 programs each taking over 1 month to make (1 was a cross words games, 2 were function graphics drawing software) under the goal that people from the government would notice it and maybe give me a hand in pursuing a career in programming. But being Syrian in Saudia Arabia. They literally did not care. The promised they would come, and came to see it (sent 2 people who just said good job) then promised me to show this to people would would appreciate it and help. But after over a year of waiting. I finished high-school and left for collage. I ended up working online for a nice guy, and after awhile he left due to my inexperience with mistakes and bugs. that demoralized me, and I found not much people to explain some of the more complex stuff. They came to the school with an entire delegation of people, and made a big celebration with big gifts and stuff. Yet that was for the Football team, who didn't win anything, they just won in the school contest. No I hardly have any interest in programming anymore. But I learned a lot on my own. Hopefully would find sometime to go back to it. Edit: I just felt that I could share this here. Thank you for reading if you did.
@mohammedsaad07614 жыл бұрын
Awesome MR GxxG it was very inspiring man👏👏👏👏👏
@stannisbarracuda56934 жыл бұрын
pursue it again man
@mrgxxg84264 жыл бұрын
@@stannisbarracuda5693 Now I have work + collage. I can't really find much time. But I still work on a fun 'Robots fight' project I started along time ago. only on vacations tho.
@abcdxx10594 жыл бұрын
i really hope i dont end up like you i dont want to leave coding
@abcdxx10594 жыл бұрын
im in the same situation i dont even have a pc i learned coding on qpython and later when i got a net connection i started using kaggle and collab from my phone i have made some applications such as machine translation, sentiment analysis , text generation and question answering systems and tried to replicate a few papers but apparently nobody gives a shit
@chriss22954 жыл бұрын
Don’t think that Gates was just an Okay programmer. He was head and shoulders above.
@karlbooklover4 жыл бұрын
Read the book Hard Drive, a fascinating biography which goes into a lot of detail from Bills early career
@charlesbaldo4 жыл бұрын
Karlbooklover I have read it, it’s a good book. The idea man by Paul Allen is better
@PeterDoingStuff4 жыл бұрын
i really like that Bill Gates shares his memories with us, it's fun to hear about and there is at lot to learn. I got into IT by accident and i have allways loved the work and all the fun and surprises. Yes you have to put in hard work, but it is rewarding too....not in money allways but in fun memories.
@MasterBroNetwork4 жыл бұрын
A reason I'd get into any coding is the funny things you can run into during creating a project. Especially with web or game development, So many funny things can happen and you can have lots of fun working on projects when you least expect it.
@oso00124 жыл бұрын
that's so fascinating even in 1964 schools had terrible funding and had to have students code THEIR PAYROLL AND SCHEDULING!!!
@notricky16804 жыл бұрын
Funny, but the payroll thing was another company, not their school
@jonetyson3 жыл бұрын
Well, they could have had a second-rate programmer from the employee's union, or they could have had Gates & Allen. Good move.
@jjbb70104 жыл бұрын
The 1st time I saw a computer my jaw dropped cause my 1st one was a commodore you plug into a cassette tape recorder :) I was super hooked.
@TheUtuber9993 жыл бұрын
Commodore 64 ❤️
@rajiiiv1234 жыл бұрын
He still remembers everything precisely @6:23
@rty19554 жыл бұрын
He most likely making it up
@codebeat41924 жыл бұрын
0:29 "How can you make it fast, how can you make it small".... Bill, go back, something went wrong with Windows.
@ILovePancakes244 жыл бұрын
Slow and large Windows 10 ahahahahahahaha
@akilansundaram21814 жыл бұрын
Nice comment.
@panblacksolutions4 жыл бұрын
Uninstalling and pausing the bloatware makes windows 10 fairly fast. The need to increase profits is where it went wrong, but still the best operating system out
@ILovePancakes244 жыл бұрын
@@panblacksolutions only if you ignore how much of a threat linux is to windows.
@batsonelectronics4 жыл бұрын
DR Dos was kicking MS's ass with Dos so it went downhill for MS when they made Windows 95 that combines the Windows GUI and the Dos under layer. ( started the problems for Windows in general ) It has been bloated ever since. I wish I had been born 5-7 years earlier, I was all in to computers in the early 80's, just a few years late to the game.
@BOTzerker4 жыл бұрын
Some of us have seen Accidental Empires and we know Bill Gates had no vision to how important DOS would be to Microsoft. He turned down IBM two times and put "Big Blue" in touch with the developer of CP/M to build an OS for their PC. When IBM came calling a third time, Microsoft didn't build an OS for IBM; they purchased QDOS renamed it 86-DOS and licensed it to IBM where it became PC DOS 1.0.
@BumHaven4 жыл бұрын
Sure he bought DOS but I think it is silly to believe everything that happened after that point was accidental.
@RabbitConfirmed4 жыл бұрын
And my programming skills are basically "Hello World"
@streamx24 жыл бұрын
@Peter Lustig He is a programmer and still writes programs.
@bob699274 жыл бұрын
@Peter Lustig he.. is.. tho..
@marc23774 жыл бұрын
@Peter Lustig FYI Gates made a bet with Paul Allen back in the day on who could write the shortest bootloader for the MITS Altair hardware. They wrote in 8080 machine language. Gates won.
@BenRangel4 жыл бұрын
@@streamx2 Name something Bill Gates has written in the last decade? Or since the 90s. I fully agree he used to be a programmer. but I hadn't heard about anything he's written in ages.
@BenRangel4 жыл бұрын
@Peter Lustig your trolling has no power here
@ikkeman79204 жыл бұрын
It's good for him to have a friend who shares the same interest. Unlike me, none of my friends know shits about computer other than typing in word 😞
@niranjanpowade39173 жыл бұрын
sm here:D
@jofx40513 жыл бұрын
Probably you can be the next famous peogrammer 🔥
@davidmalik98213 жыл бұрын
This was when the second richest man in the world was hustling. I'm still a PC guy because of him although I use more Linux for everyday use. I cam right after mini computers, DOS, and text command software. Remember Word Perfect in the early days?
@StephenDoty844 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Bill. A valuable story to hear.
@edmondcasenas25654 жыл бұрын
Studying Computer Science in his time was REALLY HARD there was no internet and you have to go to the library and besides that, the Assembly language was in early-stage you have to translate it in human-readable I took Assembly before it was full of codes that are not human-readable. Image his life back then how tough learning programming was! awful indeed, trial and error
@Etileable4 жыл бұрын
assembly is not hard it is actually fairly simple. you just need to memorizing the various instructions, addressing modes, have some knowledge about the CPU and its registers.it is tedious work but by no means "really hard". stop talking out off your ass
@IhateAlot7184 ай бұрын
It can be said, there was less distractions
@_myron4 жыл бұрын
Lesson to learn from this is that having an experienced person critique your work will advance your ability way more than any other learning resource.
@Kylemathews14 жыл бұрын
True, watched an artist talk about having other artists critique his paintings and then going back to work on the weak points of his technique
@josephbishara47914 жыл бұрын
People who go far in life tend to be people who don't shy away from doing a lot of work.
@billbelzek67484 жыл бұрын
How do you explain Commie Trump? He is President but spends half his time golfing.
@wittenberg53 жыл бұрын
@@billbelzek6748 Trumps dad had the work ethic of a machine. SOMEBODY has to do the work....lol
@ninotravis13414 жыл бұрын
This is wonderful first computer was DEC VMS for myself
@sebastiantu62124 жыл бұрын
"set a precedent for future activities", oh if they knew
@SwapnilSingh4u4 жыл бұрын
yes
@YuSuck3 жыл бұрын
You ain’t injecting me with anything mister!
@sebastiantu62124 жыл бұрын
"got the source code of the operating system out of the garbage can" what a magical man
@SwapnilSingh4u4 жыл бұрын
I dont believe
@johncole99644 жыл бұрын
He got the DEC operating system out of a garbage can, That explains why MS DOS is a direct copy of the DEC operating system Tops 10.
@davevaebutuoy4 жыл бұрын
Back in the day, all of the source code was available on microfiche. Most people didn't have fiche readers and they probably just threw it out, so I actually believe it is true that Bill got it from the trash. I read a lot of the VAX/VMS microfiche and learned a ton from it. I recall finding a problem in their YPDRIVER which caused VT220 terminals to crash in DMA mode. A BBS (Branch Bit Set) should have been a BBC (Branch Bit Clear), or vice versa. I patched the EXE and rebooted the operating system: problem solved. I reported it to DEC and they said it was really rare to get patches like this from end-users. Nice to know I was in good company with Bill and Paul. I guess I should have kept programming. By the way Windows NT (WNT) = VMS+1 (add one letter to V, M, and S to get W N T). Go look up Dave Cutler.
@jofx40513 жыл бұрын
@@davevaebutuoy Mindblowing
@pongfoong95234 жыл бұрын
Hey uncle bill i wanna sale out my phone just 5000 pice but i just wanna to know how to set mian board center to use app togther like open sever icq and use the pin like bb if dont have internet but just middle set to conrect it together .it hard for me?just open sever 5000 piont?
@travissearles234 жыл бұрын
If he saw this he'd answer that question for you for sure but the odds of him seeing are about none!
@christopherhillsofficial3 жыл бұрын
Mann if you think about it all these geniuses came out decades ago. Can’t image how cool it would be to live in that era
@zach71474 жыл бұрын
Wow, he’s so much more brilliant and well off than I could’ve ever imagined at the same age.
@ORNAMENTS_CLO2 жыл бұрын
Of cause he's a Genius. A Genius brain 🧠 works faster than a normal human brain; they learn to read in the earliest age, they wiser in many ways, etc. their iq is higher, too.
@nationwide91024 жыл бұрын
1:23 this is why "You need experience before you can get experience" is a joke. Here Bill was, 15-16, and was able to do what adults couldn't really manage to do themselves.
@everything-has-a-handle-now4 жыл бұрын
I never heard that in my life.
@possibility28able4 жыл бұрын
Computer programming was so new at the time, there weren't comp Sci majors
@ankurs8883 Жыл бұрын
I have 18 years of IT experience . I heard with rapt attention. I wanted to see where is missed. Now i know it was Interest in tech, Persistence, Programming and outlook not for money but towards learning .
@Velo10104 ай бұрын
Back in the day I was so fascinated with Bill Gates. This was in the late 90’s to mid 2000’s. When I was college my interest peaked. Now not so much.
@happyicare50534 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how things lead you in the right path, I mean the company helping you are the other one.Anz Paul Allen is very good too
@bipinmaharjan40904 жыл бұрын
I could listen to his whole life story. he is an inspiration to me and many other programmers.
@DJRonnieG4 жыл бұрын
Paul Allen did the real leg work for Atair BASIC. Not only did he have to write the assembly code, but he had to write the emulation software for the PDP-10 minicomputer which was used as a developer environment. Sure, Gates got good at BASIC but that's not a particularly challenging language, try it. This is not to say that Gates isn't an intelligent man but I do request reconsidering and looking a bit more deeply before considering him to be a top programer on the whole. Top business man, sure. That cannot be denied.
@pongfoong95234 жыл бұрын
About fixging product new i use unstill around 1 year ago . and old .3d i draw it around 6 or 7 year ago . what do you think .it weasting my time .
@TheDavidlloydjones3 жыл бұрын
That "small obscure article" at around 5:00 had a prominent pic on the front cover of Pop Tronics, Popular Electronics, and was the lead article inside. Everybody and his brother had been waiting for months for it to happen.
@sbutler70694 жыл бұрын
Back in high school when my teachers used to make me find the value of “x” I never understood why or what the purpose was but when I took a college class the teacher took the time to tell me “that’s the beauty of this it can mean anything” he then proceeded to give examples and next class I had was web design and it lead me on to have an interest in programming.
@ButterySkater4 жыл бұрын
All the information he knew were from books.
@junkmail750344 жыл бұрын
I am surprised these companies would just go to two high school kids instead of asking McKinsey. Nowadays companies would go find consultants to solve intractable problems.
@CardinalHijack3 жыл бұрын
There are many problems with America, but what I love about it was the opportunity. There was a computer that Bill and his friends could use to do what they loved. But people were not going to just give them use of it. They needed to barter, negotiate and trade things for the use of it. If they were willing to put in the work, then they could achieve whatever they want.
@CaptainNimo4 жыл бұрын
Back in those days programming was way more difficult than now.
@rake10874 жыл бұрын
Ummm yea no lol it was much easier than it is now. Sure we have libraries that help us with our code but algorithms have become so much more complex. In 1995 a CRUD program was top of the line stuff now CRUD programs are things I see in Computer Science 101
@monsterclass4 жыл бұрын
Remember Kent evans😭😢
@nothingiseverperfect4 жыл бұрын
BRO RIGHT LONG LIVE KENT EVANS
@sfcs37434 жыл бұрын
who?
@davehud2552 Жыл бұрын
Am so delightful that Bill exist even if am not suppose to say but I like him so much to reflect onto my happiness with a gigantic heart of red!!!!!
@jackilynpyzocha662 Жыл бұрын
I read about this in "Fire In The Valley" 2014
@aluminumferl4 жыл бұрын
I want to know about the man Bill is speaking of at 11:04
@johnny-mnemonic134 жыл бұрын
I know right... It makes you realize that talent alone won't make u billions
@ingelegenial4 жыл бұрын
Might be Steve Jobs (I know that's a long shot. Or basically impossible)
@johnny-mnemonic134 жыл бұрын
@@ingelegenial lol. steve jobs ain't that older than bill. Bill said that this guy was much older than him.
@s3xymuffin4 жыл бұрын
@@ingelegenial Steve Jobs wasn't a programmer, and they're the same age.
@emmanuellebianchin4 жыл бұрын
Someone so phenomenal that he won’t say his name ? Might be not a person but a group .... the BAIN & company ... that got him where he is, If it were not for his family ties and connections ... this man would be less than ordinary ... check out his past and you will understand how manipulated we are when we are only told what THEY want us to know.....
@69erone-half504 жыл бұрын
Bill trained himself to be a businessman and negotiator, so these are his advantages than other programmers at his time. If anybody can learn computer programming but the one who knows business is destined to be successful, the rest will just be employees until they retire.
@goodwill76434 жыл бұрын
so, you're businessman which still needs to learn programming?
@bluasterisk3 жыл бұрын
This is great, showing the human side of himself who also came from humble beginnings. It makes me feel better that even he admits that he had superiors and wasn't just some unmatched god programmer.
@gaylecheung30873 жыл бұрын
I wish it was longer
@lengjai114 жыл бұрын
we're literally listening to the history that shape the last 30 years of mankind. weow.
@langsonchibili13294 жыл бұрын
LITERALLY 30 YEARS OF HUMAN-KIND, DAMMN
@TheVanillatech4 жыл бұрын
Indeed. But his greatest moment was the shotgun in the trenchcoat Windows 95 "Doom" promotion!
@TheUtuber9993 жыл бұрын
45 years
@jasoncarter34994 жыл бұрын
In high school I didn't even have a computer.
@kmoses28144 жыл бұрын
Born in 1956 age today 63 years old
@phosgene24 жыл бұрын
allen and gates seem a bit like jobs and wozniak, in that he describes paul allen as supplying a lot of the vision, whereas gates' strength was in the execution and details of the programming......
@spiff_burner78874 жыл бұрын
this guy is lucky he existed at the right period and with the right knowledge !
@Izenberg3 жыл бұрын
thug bolt no such thing man don’t give out excuses out here wtf is “the right period & with the right knowledge? “
@StoneColdProfessor4 жыл бұрын
Bill Gates: Changes the world with code. Also Bill Gates: We were "pretty good" programmers. I love the modesty.
@fredjimbob29624 жыл бұрын
He wasn't a good programmer, this is all exaggeration. Bill gates is good at BS, selling himself and making money, nothing else. Microsoft got rich because of dirty tricks, stealing other people code and luck. The only thing Gates is good at is making money by conning and stealing. Dishonest, stupid pig is what he is. All good programmers who know the real Microsoft story know this, but you won't read it anywhere because the only thing that's worshiped in America is money.
@mwanikimwaniki68013 жыл бұрын
@@fredjimbob2962 okay. And?
@Ayman-te7wf4 жыл бұрын
It’s jaw dropping that’s this camera quality existed in 2010, no idea why we don’t see this quality often after a decade, I’m just flabbergasted.
@michaelryanspinelli552611 ай бұрын
It is very nice to hear & see. Bill Gates speak about his younger years. Knowing he knew. How smart Mr Gates and his friends were at such a young age. Understanding himself and friends were coding better than any one else. 🙏👍❤️🤍💙💜 GREAT JOB!!!! 😊
@jackilynpyzocha662 Жыл бұрын
Was it BASIC programming, for the school scheduling software?
@akj74 жыл бұрын
All this without the internet, that we have today. Nowadays, to every challenge programmers face, they go to Stackoverflow.
@mikeyknight2924 жыл бұрын
Jules A to be fair, the programming languages have evolved A L O T since then. Many new complicated features that make things easier and faster have been added
@utilityy4 жыл бұрын
This guy is really smart, he should start a company or something idk
@saif03164 жыл бұрын
Most surprising to me was that programing was way harder to write these program back then. It was in Assembly. I’m baffled that people were able to do these things at all.
@marklopez7472 жыл бұрын
Forgot to mention his hand in the development of software viruses. Programme it and then develop an anti-virus software to tackle that same issue. Finally, apply that same model to the real world whilst using Africa and India as guinea pigs.
@aarond234 жыл бұрын
Instructions to get this into your recommendations...watch a couple shark tank videos, then Kevin O'Leary videos, then Mark Cuban videos, then wham you are into the billionaire recommendations...
@slappy89414 жыл бұрын
I used to watch videos about poor people, but I've come up in the world, and now I only watch videos about billionaires.
@AnoNym-zi5ty3 жыл бұрын
First he gave us windows, now he gave us corona.
@pongfoong95234 жыл бұрын
Time yang ngai cub kun r?
@benjaminvesenjak4 жыл бұрын
Note guys those werent the times whre you could just copy errything off of stack overflow
@triky53844 жыл бұрын
You can see in his face that he's so proud of what he did and how mad he made some people when he was younger 😄
@TheVisualante11 Жыл бұрын
@tiny5384 Ya good call. Telling the story how he saved the Day beating out the older guys Paul Allan and he did most of the work. I like how he takes credit for getting the contract too. Im sure his Lawyer dad had nothing to do with setting up the contract.
@ad3l4 жыл бұрын
Today's programming 60% git hub 20% why does my code not work?! 20℅ why does my code work?!
@kelvinxg67544 жыл бұрын
@@ohio yes he's one of people who invented OS so his coding kinda . . more complicated
@BryonLape4 жыл бұрын
@@kelvinxg6754 He bought an OS, tweaked it, then sold it to IBM.
@kaisbenrhouma4 жыл бұрын
It's so true
@techtipsuk2 жыл бұрын
Nice to hear him talking about something he actually has an authority to talk about as opposed to vaccines.
@alidurrani46454 жыл бұрын
GATES talking about how phenomenal he was in programming at 16 and here is me, can't even write a program to solve a fibonacci series at the age of 26 :p
@marklandgraf76674 жыл бұрын
Wow. A billionaire speaking in complete coherent sentences.
@user-xr3rb6pn9m4 жыл бұрын
Billionnaires are rarely stupid. Maybe evil, immoral, etc. but not stupid.
@marklandgraf76674 жыл бұрын
@@user-xr3rb6pn9m It was a slight at a particular billionaire. Not at them in general. I thought the reference would have been clear. I was wrong.
@user-xr3rb6pn9m4 жыл бұрын
@@marklandgraf7667 well, I don't think the billionaire you meant is an idiot either :) he just says what his electorate wants to hear.
@marklandgraf76674 жыл бұрын
@@user-xr3rb6pn9m I didn't say he was an idiot. I was saying that he does not speak in complete and coherent sentences when speaking off-script. You are, however, completely correct by saying he says what his electorate wants to hear. Although I would say 'supporters' rather than 'electorate'.
@billbelzek67484 жыл бұрын
Trump sounds like an idiot even reading off a teleprompter --- first authentic retard as President !!
@ComputerGuy633 жыл бұрын
I think his first commercial program was called something like TRAF-O-MATIC for monitoring traffic at intersections. He never invented the MS DOS operating system. He bought it from some schnook for $50,000 and slapped the Microsoft label on it.
@Juan-ud3if Жыл бұрын
Simply truthful and honest. Respect.💛
@TheVisualante11 Жыл бұрын
@Juan Really? I wish Paul Allan was there while he told the story of him taking over and fixing the problem and doing most of the work. Kinda like Ringo taking credit for writing most of the Beatles songs.
@AnGhaeilge4 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Bill still codes as a hobby in his spare time.
@johncaiwa4 жыл бұрын
No
@ivanbravomunoz13054 жыл бұрын
Doubt it
@jshepard1524 жыл бұрын
Bill tries to eliminate polio worldwide as a hobby in his spare time.
@billbelzek67484 жыл бұрын
He probably dabbles in Javascript --- but he'd rather just hire his own army of programmers to do his bidding
@HiddenXTube4 жыл бұрын
Why do you think VB6 is still running on Windows 10?
@neilcidial-masrysandagesid77964 жыл бұрын
11:00 ~ where are those people, what became of them?
@davecullins16064 жыл бұрын
Probably ended up working for him or got some other high position because of their legendary skills.
@katsuonakamoto91992 ай бұрын
Great interview. Nothing is more interesting than programming.
@Borednerds2 жыл бұрын
In my opinion, that guy 11:10 is what made Gates. Constructive criticism of young genius can be dangerous but if the kid is REALLY smart and "gets" it well, the sky is the limit. Clearly worked for Mr. Gates.
@unknownsoul70434 жыл бұрын
why all the companies when bankrupt? " and why did his friend get killed "
@NativeVsColonial4 жыл бұрын
soul just bring my magnifying glass, the story is shady we need to go deeper and look after him, but firstly tell him to fix my fucking damn computer!
@djdjukic4 жыл бұрын
When he mentioned he was 15-16 during this, I was pretty astounded. But then I remembered, I too was pretty freaking good at programming when I was 16. In school, they had me and my good friend who was also skilled do programming tests separately from the others so that we wouldn't assist them. I had already made programs that I sold, one of them to a hospital. But 8 years later, even as I went to college (now graduating) and kept improving my skills, the grand total of money I made programming is still under $500. I can't get a programming job here in Serbia; like other well-paying jobs, it's a good old boys' gig and I don't have any good connections. I would prefer to work by myself anyway, I kind of like being the starving programmer working on my own projects and open source stuff. But a man's gotta eat...
@davidsensei86724 жыл бұрын
I don't think I've ever heard his voice before
@nelsonthekinger4 жыл бұрын
What was the tech stack?
@lobovutare4 жыл бұрын
At the time DEC-PDP computers and the Fortran programming language were quite popular. Bill talks about using BASIC, FORTRAN, LISP and PDP-10 assembler at school. Later on he also programmed in COBOL for Traf-O-Data on the CP/M operating system. americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm#tc2 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Early_life
@Jordan_992 жыл бұрын
Y’all seriously believe this guy is legit? His father was an extremely wealthy eugenics enthusiast lmao
@ooo81882 жыл бұрын
And the father of one of the world’s richest men to date.
@Jordan_992 жыл бұрын
@@ooo8188 who’s that?
@ooo81882 жыл бұрын
@@Jordan_99 who do you think? Have a guess
@rippspeck4 жыл бұрын
I bet nobody has ever said this before about Bill Gates, but I think his tan looks great.
@vertie20904 жыл бұрын
no homo
@plugpulled4 жыл бұрын
My ranks for biggest nerds and geeks in programming 1. John Carmack 2. Dave Cutler 3. Linus Torvalds 4. Michael Abrash 5. Bill Gates 6. Tim Sweeney 7. Ken Silverman
@tommypenderson22894 жыл бұрын
I still have my Windows 95 install discs and my old pc I’m never getting arid of it I like Windows 95
@longlifeprinters94 жыл бұрын
Darn, I was 10 years younger & 2 states away form this guy that I could have gotten along with really well. I loved programming in High School but it was only introduced in my senior year. We used to get kicked out of the computer lab by the janitor at 9pm & teachers were threatening to expel us for staying so late & all we were doing was programming software to run ski resorts or accounting firms or police stations. After High School I started to pursue computer science but went away from it for some unknown reason & 10 years later I could have been on the Microsoft team. Oh well, life goes on for us average folk.